Verna
A unisex name of Latin origin, meaning of spring; springtime.
Babies a year
32
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Verna by the numbers
Verna was given to 32 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 1,873 babies in 1918, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Verna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean water
Like Verna, each of these has water in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Mayaillusion; mother; water1,259 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maxwellgreat spring; place name3,118 in the US (2017)
- Riverflowing water; nature name3,114 in the US (2017)
- Brooksof the small stream1,938 in the US (2017)
- Beckettbee keeper or stream; a surname used as a given name1,763 in the US (2017)
- Brookesmall stream1,616 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Verna
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