# Verne (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/verne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,719 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,841 / 878 (13% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 10 | 3,120 |
| 1946 | 12 | 3,024 |
| 1947 | 9 | 3,997 |
| 1948 | 11 | 3,337 |
| 1949 | 12 | 3,170 |
| 1950 | 11 | 3,412 |
| 1951 | 6 | 5,384 |
| 1952 | 8 | 4,472 |
| 1953 | 9 | 4,214 |
| 1954 | 12 | 3,485 |
| 1955 | 7 | 5,177 |
| 1956 | 6 | 5,931 |
| 1959 | 6 | 6,218 |
| 1960 | 6 | 6,359 |
| 1962 | 5 | 7,543 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 12 | 3,115 |
| 1975 | 12 | 3,235 |
| 1976 | 15 | 2,818 |
| 1977 | 10 | 3,830 |
| 1978 | 14 | 3,063 |
| 1979 | 8 | 4,828 |
| 1980 | 16 | 2,958 |
| 1981 | 5 | 7,239 |
| 1982 | 11 | 3,953 |
| 1983 | 10 | 4,130 |
| 1984 | 6 | 6,284 |
| 1985 | 11 | 4,036 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,772 |
| 1987 | 5 | 8,093 |
| 1990 | 5 | 9,429 |

## People named Verne

- Verne Troyer, American actor (1969-2018)
- Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler and football player (1926–2015)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.