Vernona

Last seen for girls in 1967 at #6,804

Peak · girls
1941 · 16 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
250
since 1913

Vernona over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Vernona has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201941peak #2,096, 1941girls
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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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1967#6,8045
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1962#6,5785
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1958#6,1035
1957#5,3776
1956#5,9525
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1953#5,0406
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1950#5,3015
1949#5,2445
1948#4,2057
1947#3,7069
1946#3,6658
1945#4,0256
1944#4,0546
1943#2,55813
1942#2,11717
1941#2,09616
1940#3,2088
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1936#4,1815
1935#3,1568
1934#3,8026
1933
1932#4,4115
1931#3,8486
1930#4,0476
1929
1928#4,1956
1927#4,8055
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1923#4,9675
1922#4,4456
1921#4,0237
1920#3,3409
1919#3,4528
1918#2,82211
1917#3,0929
1916#3,2588
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1913#2,3318
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First appearance
1913

The first year at least five girls were named Vernona! It came in at #2,331, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1914–1915, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Vernona
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1967
Rise & fade · girls
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1913
  • Peaked 1941 at #2,096 (16 births)
  • Births halved by 1944, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 75,507
  • Highest: 1 in 75,507 girls born in 1941 were named Vernona (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 330,205 girls born in 1967 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1940s
  • 38.0% of all girls named Vernona (95) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s44#2,331 (1913)#2,991
1920s38#3,340 (1920)#4,296
1930s36#3,156 (1935)#3,908
1940s95#2,096 (1941)#3,488
1950s27#5,040 (1953)#5,555
1960s10#6,578 (1962)#6,691

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

Vernona in 1941

girls
#2,096
16 births · 1 in 75,507 girls

Top girls' names in 1941

  1. #1Mary58,048
  2. #2Barbara39,543
  3. #3Patricia36,905
  4. #4Carol24,187
  5. #5Linda23,721
  6. #6Judith23,320
  7. #7Betty20,905
  8. #8Nancy20,885
  9. #9Sandra19,500
  10. #10Shirley16,954
  11. #2,096Vernona16
More about 1941

girls

1,208,119 girls got a published name in 1941; 1 in 75,507 of them was named Vernona, which outranked 58.8% of the 5,085 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Vernona
  1. #2,018Valera17
  2. #2,018Wesley17
  3. #2,018Zettie17
  4. #2,096Vernona16
  5. #2,096Aimee16
  6. #2,096Aloha16
  7. #2,096Annabella16
  8. #2,190Adelaida15
  9. #2,190Annamay15
  10. #2,190Arbutus15

Tied with 93 names at #2,096; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1940
Risers
  1. 2,130Jerilyn#2,737#607
  2. 1,258Trina#2,109#851
  3. 372Karan#1,347#975
  4. 371Kristine#1,313#942
  5. 356Sherri#1,186#830
Fallers
  1. 447Kenneth#971#1,418
  2. 421Janna#997#1,418
  3. 366Beatriz#989#1,355
  4. 338Merna#997#1,335
  5. 337Eldora#957#1,294

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

See the top 100 for 1941