Name meaning & stats
Verna
Verna means “place of alder trees” (Latin origin). 20,357 US babies since 1940, peak 1943.
What it means
“place of alder trees”
LatinFeminine form of Vernon
In US birth records
Peak year: 1943
20,357 US babies were named Verna between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Verna (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 84% of the family
- Verna 84%
- Verona 6%
- Verena 5%
- Vernia 2%
- Verania 1%
- Veronia 1%
- Verina 1%
- Vernona 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1943)