Verlan

Where Verlan comes from

Verlan hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,516 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1920
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1933
    Peak, #1,905
    14 babies named Verlan — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,645.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Verlan hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.