Vernie

Where Vernie comes from

Diminutives + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Vernie
  • Vowel-ended
Vernie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls, with 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1897
    Peak, #420
    48 babies named Vernie, its best rank.
  3. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #704.
  4. 1979
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Vernon.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Laverne, Verna, and Veronica.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Vernie in Wikidata.

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.