How popular is the name Verlin?

Verlin ranks 1,499th among boys' names in US records, with 5,249 births since 1905. Over the past decade it accounts for 10.

Is Verlin a unisex name?

No. Verlin is recorded almost entirely as a boys' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1929, when 149 children were given the name. It has been in use for 120 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Verlyn, Verlynn. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Boy name#1,499 of boy names

Pronounced V ER1 L IH1 N (ARPABET)

Verlin is a boys' name, and first appears in 1905. It has been given to 5,249 children — the 1,499th most common boys' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 10 births across the past decade, against a peak of 149 in a single year. That peak was in 1929.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Verlyn and Verlynn — because they are pronounced identically.

1929149

These spellings sound identical to Verlin and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Verlin?: Verlin ranks 1,499th among boys' names in US records, with 5,249 births since 1905. Over the past decade it accounts for 10.
Is Verlin a unisex name?: No. Verlin is recorded almost entirely as a boys' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Verlin most popular?: 1929, when 149 children were given the name. It has been in use for 120 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Verlin spelled?: Verlyn, Verlynn. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.