Vernal
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Vernal has been given to 2,158 babies in the U.S. since 1894. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 49 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.
Babies named Vernal, 2005
1 in 769,000
Vernal over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Vernal over time
In 2005, Vernal went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Vernal?
Vernal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Vernal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vernal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Vernals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Vernal was born before 1935 — so the typical Vernal is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 21.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 485
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (390).
Is Vernal rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (49)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.5% average annual change
Spellings of Vernal
Vernal is not the most common spelling — Vernon is, with 77.9% against Vernal's 0.95%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Vernal is used
Across 1910–2025, Vernal was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 590,960 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Idaho1 in 33,333
- 2Utah1 in 50,000
- 3Kansas1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Kentucky1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 in —
- 8New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vernal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Vernal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Vernal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Vernal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.