Verle

Last seen for girls in 1948 at #5,243 · Last seen for boys in 1978 at #5,059
Given to boys 77.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
1908 · 11 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,758
since 1906

Verle over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201945peak #1,262, 1914peak #825, 1908girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1978—#5,0596
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1968—#4,1365
1967—#3,9665
1966—#3,2497
1965—#3,5376
1964—#2,66510
1963—#2,30013
1962—#3,0418
1961—#3,0978
1960—#1,97317
1959—#3,0378
1958—#2,17714
1957—#1,79120
1956—#2,16814
1955—#1,84518
1954—#2,20713
1953—#2,09914
1952—#1,70120
1951—#1,77418
1950—#1,81517
1949—#1,54423
1948#5,2435#1,70319
1947—#1,44926
1946—#1,55721
1945—#1,22729
1944—#1,31126
1943—#1,34327
1942—#1,22832
1941—#1,18731
1940#4,3495#1,15633
1939—#1,01539
1938#3,4507#1,17131
1937—#1,00040
1936#3,7016#88248
1935#3,1568#95644
1934#2,9239#95644
1933#2,27513#86951
1932#3,0479#90251
1931#2,9729#88752
1930#2,30614#1,03744
1929#2,30114#97548
1928#1,83721#87258
1927#2,55213#1,06044
1926#1,83022#1,03445
1925#1,94620#1,12139
1924#1,72325#1,03247
1923#1,84022#93054
1922#2,02719#97752
1921#1,66826#95055
1920#1,40732#84664
1919#1,60425#1,03443
1918#1,64524#1,06241
1917#1,47026#98244
1916#2,24614#92247
1915#1,88317#96242
1914#1,26224#1,26022
1913#1,67013#1,58012
1912#2,3607#1,13717
1911#1,54510#1,2908
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First appearance
1906

The first year at least five boys were named Verle! It came in at #1,253, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1906–1907, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Verle is popular in 1945

No state had 5 or more boys named Verle in 1945, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Verle
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1978
  • Biggest jump: 298 spots in 1915 (#1,260 → #962)
  • Biggest drop: 171 spots in 1938 (#1,000 → #1,171)
Rise & fade · boys
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1906
  • Peaked 1908 at #825 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1909, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1931–1937
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,031
  • Highest: 1 in 14,031 boys born in 1908 were named Verle (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 273,640 boys born in 1978 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 28.8% of all boys named Verle (506) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1915
  • Mostly girls until 1914, mostly boys since
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s16#825 (1908)#1,039
1910s276#922 (1916)#1,137
1920s506#846 (1920)#980
1930s444#869 (1933)#968
1940s267#1,156 (1940)#1,371
1950s156#1,701 (1952)#2,061
1960s79#1,973 (1960)#3,107
1970s14#3,521 (1970)#4,290

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.

Verle in 1945

boys
#1,227
29 births · 1 in 46,409 boys

Top boys' names in 1945

  1. #1James74,464
  2. #2Robert69,947
  3. #3John66,117
  4. #4William50,218
  5. #5Richard46,046
  6. #6David37,110
  7. #7Charles32,469
  8. #8Thomas31,874
  9. #9Michael29,902
  10. #10Ronald23,665
  11. #1,227Verle29
More about 1945

boys

1,345,855 boys got a published name in 1945; 1 in 46,409 of them was named Verle, which outranked 67.6% of the 3,783 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Verle
  1. #1,204Otho30
  2. #1,204Sanders30
  3. #1,204Stevie30
  4. #1,227Verle29
  5. #1,227Anselmo29
  6. #1,227Carmelo29
  7. #1,227Celestino29
  8. #1,249Armond28
  9. #1,249Brice28
  10. #1,249Damian28

Tied with 21 names at #1,227; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1944
Risers
  1. ↑ 527Delano#1,085 → #558
  2. ↑ 499Dane#1,235 → #736
  3. ↑ 385Eusebio#1,328 → #943
  4. ↑ 371Erick#1,235 → #864
  5. ↑ 311Gerardo#1,282 → #971
Fallers
  1. ↓ 479Joan#870 → #1,349
  2. ↓ 408Kit#841 → #1,249
  3. ↓ 392Llewellyn#935 → #1,327
  4. ↓ 361Valentine#888 → #1,249
  5. ↓ 321Hilario#906 → #1,227

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1945 →