Verna is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Verna is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Verna. In the SmartGenius ranking, Verna is #3,993 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 57,057 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Verna. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Verna annualy. This means that there have been girls named Verna who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Verna have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Verna even more than any other time: in 1906, it holds its present record of #114 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Verna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Verna has never been ranked higher than #114. In 2022, she rivaled the 3,504 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 37 girls named Verna were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Verna were born, there have been 30 newborns who received this name.
The name Verna may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Verna is apparently especially popular in North Dakota. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 636 women in North Dakota is called Verna. In total, that’s 820 women who feel addressed when the name Verna is shouted loudly across North Dakota and who ensure that their name makes it to #187 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Verna as the answer a total of 57,046 times. This places Verna at #479 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Verna as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Verna is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Verna and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Verna, you can simply say:
Violin
Elephant
Rocket
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Verna
Verna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
E
R
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
E
R
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Verna sounds like this:
