Verne

Where Verne comes from

Verne 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1893
    Peak, #300
    33 babies named Verne — more than any year before or since.
  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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1926
    Verne Gagne born
    American professional wrestler and football player
  6. 1969
    Verne Troyer born
    American actor
In the dictionary

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

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.