Verlan
Last seen for girls in 1919 at #4,814 · Last seen for boys in 1968 at #4,136
Given to boys 98.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1933 · 14 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 319since 1916
Verlan over time
Rank among boys' names. Verlan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,592 | 10 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,875 | 8 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,671 | 9 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,964 | 7 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,712 | 8 | |
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| 1940 | — | #2,322 | 10 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,050 | 12 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,084 | 12 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,992 | 13 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,184 | 11 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,905 | 14 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,465 | 10 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,651 | 9 | |
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| 1929 | — | #2,766 | 9 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,387 | 12 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,034 | 16 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,435 | 12 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | #4,168 | 5 |
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| 1917 | — | #2,732 | 9 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Verlan! It came in at #3,516, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1919, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Verlan is popular in 1927
No state had 5 or more boys named Verlan in 1927, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Verlan
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1968
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1933 at #1,905 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1935, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 70,432 boys born in 1927 were named Verlan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 347,595 boys born in 1968 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,905 in 1933, was only 1 in 70,823 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.1% of all boys named Verlan (96) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 20 | #2,732 (1917) | #3,472 |
| 1920s | 74 | #2,034 (1927) | #3,084 |
| 1930s | 96 | #1,905 (1933) | #2,374 |
| 1940s | 57 | #2,322 (1940) | #3,007 |
| 1950s | 61 | #2,592 (1954) | #3,318 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,601 (1964) | #3,869 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Verlan in 1927
Top boys' names in 1927
More about 1927
boys
1,126,915 boys got a published name in 1927; 1 in 70,432 of them was named Verlan, which outranked 57.6% of the 4,802 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,959Yukio17
- #1,959Zigmund17
- #1,959Zollie17
- #2,034Verlan16
- #2,034Agnes16
- #2,034Aldon16
- #2,034Aleck16
- #2,121Admiral15
- #2,121Ancel15
- #2,121Arnoldo15
Tied with 86 names at #2,034; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.