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Verner

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Cautious; heedful; wary; watchful + army; army leader, through Werner

Verner has been given to 2,134 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1917, with 70 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.

Babies named Verner, 2000

1 in 756,000

Verner over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Verner over time

In 2000, Verner went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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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.

Verner: meaning, origin, and history

Cautious; heedful; wary; watchful + army; army leader, through Werner

German

What Verner means

Verner belongs to the name family reached through Verner → Werner. Its meaning is “cautious; heedful; wary; watchful + army; army leader”.

Origin, language, and formation

Verner is used in Danish, Estonian and Swedish. Its origins include German.

Verner comes through German Werner.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Warner and Werner.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,963 boys were recorded with the name Verner between 1881 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1917; its best national rank was #500 in 1894.

In the United States, 171 girls were recorded with the name Verner between 1913 and 1952. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,874 in 1913.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Verner?

Verner had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 756,000
5 of 3,778,496 births
Among boys only
1 in 393,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
523,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Verner sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Verner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Verners were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Verner was born before 1924 — so the typical Verner is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
279
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (503).

Is Verner 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (70)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#500
1894

Spellings of Verner

Verner is not the most common spelling — Vernon is, with 69.3% against Verner's 0.93%.

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 Verner is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Verner was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 442,809 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2Iowa1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Nebraska1 in —
  8. 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. Verner has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Verner is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Verner was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 598,309 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Verner has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Verner around the world

Where Verner ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1952–1952
    #345
    in 1952

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Verner by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#500
1894
Peak year
1917
70 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
1,963
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,874
1913
Peak year
1922
15 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1952
All-time count
171
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Verner

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Verner

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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