Verne

Where Verne comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Verne.

  • Vowel-ended
Verne through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys, with 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1893
    Peak, #300
    33 babies named Verne, its best rank.
  3. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #521.
  4. 1912
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  5. 1926
    Verne Gagne born
    American professional wrestler and football player
  6. 1969
    Verne Troyer born
    American actor
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Verne Troyer · American actor, 1969–2018
  • Verne Gagne · American professional wrestler and football player, 1926–2015
  • Verne Grant · U.S. botanist, 1917–2007
  • Verne Langdon · American actor and singer, 1941–2011
  • Verne D. Mudge · US Army major general, 1898–1957

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.