Verbal Popularity by Year

Follow Verbal across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Verbal birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1922	Girls	5	#5,009	Down 1,343 places
1921	Girls	8	#3,666	Down 326 places
1920	Girls	9	#3,340	Up 1,474 places
1919	Girls	5	#4,814	Down 5 places
1918	Girls	5	#4,809	Down 726 places
1917	Girls	6	#4,083	Down 164 places
1916	Girls	6	#3,919	Down 301 places
1914	Girls	5	#3,618	—