Verle

Where Verle comes from

Verle hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1903
    Verle A. Pope born
    served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate
  2. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,253 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1908
    Peak, #825
    11 babies named Verle — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1909
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1915
    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.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Verle A. Pope · served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate, 1903–1973

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.