Verda
Feminine · “green”
Verda is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 8,062 girls against 7 boys since 1880.
Verda is green, in Latin — viridis, the root of verdant and of verdure — and it belongs to the small family of color names that nineteenth-century America made from Latin roots.
How old is the name Verda?
Verda first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Verda alive today was born around 1922, making them about 103 years old. About 1,400 people named Verda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Verda most popular?
Verda peaked in 1898, reaching #348 nationally. See the whole 1898 chart.
Where it comes from
From viridis to Verda
The story of Verda
Latin-rooted coinages were common in nineteenth-century American naming — Verda, Verna, Vera, Vesta, Velma — often built on a recognizable root with a familiar ending. Verda appears in the registers from the 1880s, ran alongside Verna and Vera, and peaked around 1918 before fading almost entirely.
Meaningscholars disagree
green, fresh
Usually read from the Latin viridis, 'green' or 'fresh', which gives verdant, verdure and the Spanish verde. A second route treats it as a feminine of Verdun or a clipping of Alverda. The Latin reading is the commoner and better-supported one.
How the name formed
- viridis
- Verda
Related forms: Verda · Verde · Verdie
Pronouncing Verda
VUR-duh
Two syllables, stress on the first. There is no established alternative reading.
Nicknames for Verda
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1882
- Most girls named
- 1918283 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #348reached in 1898
- Change vs 1983
- 0.0%5 in 1999, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Verda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Verda in Esperanto — same name
- Verde in Italian — related form
- Verdie in English — spelling variant
Verdas among us
people named Verda are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Verda sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The green meaning is concrete and transparent through the English words that share the root.
- It belongs to a documented family of nineteenth-century Latin coinages.
- Two firm syllables that carry well.
- The origin is somewhat split, though the Latin reading is much the stronger.
- Verna and Vera are close enough to cause confusion.
- It is strongly period-coded to the early twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Verdas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Verda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Verda in 2025?
- Verda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Verda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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