Verle
Recorded 1890–1978 · United States
Verle was most popular in 1920, when 96 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,359 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,279 people named Verle.
Verle over time
How old is the name Verle?
Verle first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1890, which makes it about 135 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 71 of the 136 years since. It was last recorded in 1978.
How many people are named Verle?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,279 American births named Verle between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 398 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Verle in 2025?
Verle was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Verle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Verle is a unisex name — 22.9% of the 2,279 Americans given it were girls and 77.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 1915 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Verle?
Roughly 398 Americans named Verle are alive today — 17% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 78 years old, and half are between 69 and 86.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Verle is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org