# Vernie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vernie/  
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 | 2,760 / 3,959 (59% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Diminutives + -ie.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 14 | 3,428 |
| 1960 | 10 | 4,433 |
| 1961 | 12 | 4,004 |
| 1963 | 14 | 3,632 |
| 1964 | 11 | 4,340 |
| 1966 | 6 | 6,542 |
| 1967 | 9 | 4,969 |
| 1968 | 7 | 6,231 |
| 1969 | 7 | 6,598 |
| 1970 | 5 | 9,320 |
| 1972 | 5 | 9,628 |
| 1973 | 5 | 9,763 |
| 1976 | 8 | 7,273 |
| 1977 | 6 | 9,617 |
| 1978 | 6 | 9,716 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 12 | 2,678 |
| 1970 | 17 | 2,289 |
| 1971 | 15 | 2,550 |
| 1972 | 8 | 3,948 |
| 1974 | 14 | 2,793 |
| 1975 | 8 | 4,299 |
| 1976 | 5 | 6,472 |
| 1978 | 5 | 6,726 |
| 1979 | 9 | 4,389 |
| 1980 | 9 | 4,480 |
| 1981 | 6 | 6,230 |
| 1982 | 7 | 5,602 |
| 1989 | 6 | 7,868 |
| 1990 | 5 | 9,430 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,583 |

## People named Vernie

- Ron Dellums, American politician and former Mayor of Oakland, CA (1935–2018)

## 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.