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Vernice

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Literal meaning not recorded

Vernice has been given to 8,079 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1923, with 225 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Vernice, 2011

1 in 732,000

Vernice over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2011, Vernice went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18872011

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.

Vernice: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vernice means

Vernice is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vernice is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,290 girls were recorded with the name Vernice between 1887 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 225 in 1923; its best national rank was #453 in 1919.

In the United States, 789 boys were recorded with the name Vernice between 1908 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,283 in 1918.

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 Vernice?

Vernice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vernice sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vernice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vernices were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vernice was born before 1932 — so the typical Vernice is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,027
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1920s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (1,786).

Is Vernice 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 1923 (225)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#453
1919

Spellings of Vernice

Vernice is not the most common spelling — Veronica is, with 39.5% against Vernice's 1.3%.

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 Vernice is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Vernice was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 37,930 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,882
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 7,692
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 10,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 12,500
  5. 5Alabama1 in 14,286
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 14,286
  7. 7Georgia1 in 20,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 25,000

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. Vernice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Vernice is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Vernice was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 570,318 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in —
  2. 2Tennessee1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Vernice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vernice around the world

Where Vernice 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
    1944–1989
    #692
    in 1989

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

Notable people named Vernice

People whose public names include Vernice, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Vernice by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#453
1919
Peak year
1923
225 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
7,290
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,283
1918
Peak year
1918
31 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
789
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vernice

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

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Names with a curve like Vernice

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vernice, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Vernice

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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