Verlan

Last seen for girls in 1919 at #4,814 · Last seen for boys in 1968 at #4,136
Given to boys 98.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
1933 · 14 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
319
since 1916

Verlan over time

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Rank among boys' names. Verlan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201933peak #1,905, 1933boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1968#4,1365
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1964#3,6016
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1959#3,6196
1958#3,2757
1957#3,2577
1956#3,5356
1955#3,8865
1954#2,59210
1953#3,7985
1952#2,8758
1951
1950#3,0217
1949#3,6905
1948#3,6685
1947#2,6719
1946#2,9197
1945
1944#3,1096
1943#2,9647
1942#2,7128
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1940#2,32210
1939#2,05012
1938#2,08412
1937#1,99213
1936#2,18411
1935#3,6455
1934#2,39310
1933#1,90514
1932#2,46510
1931#2,6519
1930
1929#2,7669
1928#2,38712
1927#2,03416
1926#3,3857
1925#2,43512
1924#3,8676
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1922#4,3075
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1920#3,4897
1919#4,8145#4,1685
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1917#2,7329
1916#3,5166
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five boys were named Verlan! It came in at #3,516, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1918–1919, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Verlan
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1968
Rise & fade · boys
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 1933 at #1,905 (14 births)
  • Births halved by 1935, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 70,432
  • Highest: 1 in 70,432 boys born in 1927 were named Verlan (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 347,595 boys born in 1968 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,905 in 1933, was only 1 in 70,823 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1930s
  • 30.1% of all boys named Verlan (96) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s20#2,732 (1917)#3,472
1920s74#2,034 (1927)#3,084
1930s96#1,905 (1933)#2,374
1940s57#2,322 (1940)#3,007
1950s61#2,592 (1954)#3,318
1960s11#3,601 (1964)#3,869

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Verlan in 1933

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#1,905
14 births · 1 in 70,823 boys

Top boys' names in 1933

  1. #1Robert54,221
  2. #2James51,112
  3. #3John46,224
  4. #4William39,049
  5. #5Richard31,331
  6. #6Charles28,991
  7. #7Donald28,450
  8. #8George18,356
  9. #9Joseph17,162
  10. #10Thomas16,508
  11. #1,905Verlan14
More about 1933

boys

991,524 boys got a published name in 1933; 1 in 70,823 of them was named Verlan, which outranked 54.2% of the 4,156 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Verlan
  1. #1,829Wash15
  2. #1,829Wray15
  3. #1,829Yoshio15
  4. #1,905Verlan14
  5. #1,905Addie14
  6. #1,905Adron14
  7. #1,905Agnes14
  8. #1,997Alcide13
  9. #1,997Alexis13
  10. #1,997Arsenio13

Tied with 91 names at #1,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1932
Risers
  1. 553Neville#1,548#995
  2. 401Cordell#1,286#885
  3. 381Hamilton#1,286#905
  4. 375Delano#677#302
  5. 313Jan#937#624
Fallers
  1. 568Hoover#793#1,361
  2. 541Porfirio#915#1,456
  3. 424Rosendo#937#1,361
  4. 381Alfonzo#821#1,202
  5. 368Hillard#862#1,230

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1933