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Vernie

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Diminutive of Vernon or Laverne or Verna or Veronica

Vernie has been given to 6,719 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 123 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% girls, 41% boys all-time.

Babies named Vernie, 1978

1 in 529,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 1991, Vernie 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.

Vernie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Vernon or Laverne or Verna or Veronica

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vernie means

Vernie is a diminutive of Vernon or Laverne or Verna or Veronica.

Origin, language, and formation

Vernie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vernon, Laverne, Verna and Veronica.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,959 girls were recorded with the name Vernie between 1880 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 123 in 1916; its best national rank was #424 in 1897.

In the United States, 2,760 boys were recorded with the name Vernie between 1880 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 81 in 1924; its best national rank was #448 in 1898.

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.

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How common is Vernie?

Vernie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 529,000
6 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
366,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vernie 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 1978 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 366,634 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vernie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vernies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vernie was born before 1921 — so the typical Vernie is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
321
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1910s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (880).

Is Vernie 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 1916 (123)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#424
1897

Spellings of Vernie

Vernie is not the most common spelling — Bernice is, with 30.6% against Vernie's 0.66%.

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 Vernie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Vernie was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 59,306 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 14,286
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 25,000
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 25,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 33,333
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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

Where Vernie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Vernie was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 143,634 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  2. 2Missouri1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Vernie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vernie 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
#424
1897
Peak year
1916
123 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
3,959
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#448
1898
Peak year
1924
81 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
2,760
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vernie

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

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Names with a curve like Vernie

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

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Sibling names for Vernie

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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