Verlan Popularity by Year

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

Verlan birth-count history

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Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1968	Boys	5	#4,136	Down 535 places
1964	Boys	6	#3,601	Up 18 places
1959	Boys	6	#3,619	Down 344 places
1958	Boys	7	#3,275	Down 18 places
1957	Boys	7	#3,257	Up 278 places
1956	Boys	6	#3,535	Up 351 places
1955	Boys	5	#3,886	Down 1,294 places
1954	Boys	10	#2,592	Up 1,206 places
1953	Boys	5	#3,798	Down 923 places
1952	Boys	8	#2,875	Up 146 places
1950	Boys	7	#3,021	Up 669 places
1949	Boys	5	#3,690	Down 22 places
1948	Boys	5	#3,668	Down 997 places
1947	Boys	9	#2,671	Up 248 places
1946	Boys	7	#2,919	Up 190 places
1944	Boys	6	#3,109	Down 145 places
1943	Boys	7	#2,964	Down 252 places
1942	Boys	8	#2,712	Down 390 places
1940	Boys	10	#2,322	Down 272 places
1939	Boys	12	#2,050	Up 34 places
1938	Boys	12	#2,084	Down 92 places
1937	Boys	13	#1,992	Up 192 places
1936	Boys	11	#2,184	Up 1,461 places
1935	Boys	5	#3,645	Down 1,252 places
1934	Boys	10	#2,393	Down 488 places
1933	Boys	14	#1,905	Up 560 places
1932	Boys	10	#2,465	Up 186 places
1931	Boys	9	#2,651	Up 115 places
1929	Boys	9	#2,766	Down 379 places
1928	Boys	12	#2,387	Down 353 places
1927	Boys	16	#2,034	Up 1,351 places
1926	Boys	7	#3,385	Down 950 places
1925	Boys	12	#2,435	Up 1,432 places
1924	Boys	6	#3,867	Up 440 places
1922	Boys	5	#4,307	Down 818 places
1920	Boys	7	#3,489	Up 679 places
1919	Boys	5	#4,168	Down 1,436 places
1919	Girls	5	#4,814	—
1917	Boys	9	#2,732	Up 784 places
1916	Boys	6	#3,516	—