Verdell
Masculine
Verdell is given to both — 1,340 boys and 2,085 girls since 1880. See Verdell as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Verdell looks French and green — vert, verdant, verdure all sit right there in the first syllable — and it is not French and has nothing to do with green. The front is an American name element and the back is an American name ending. The resemblance is entirely an accident of spelling.
How old is the name Verdell?
Verdell first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Verdell alive today was born around 1952, making them about 73 years old. About 700 people named Verdell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Verdell most popular?
Verdell peaked in 1936, reaching #1326 nationally. See the whole 1936 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Verdell to Verdell
The story of Verdell
Since the green reading is going to occur to everyone anyway, here is a genuinely good fact about that color. Verdigris — the blue-green crust that forms on copper and bronze — takes its name from Old French for the green of Greece, not the green of France, apparently because the pigment was imported from or associated with the eastern Mediterranean. English borrowed the phrase whole and then forgot it was a phrase, so the country's name is sitting inside an ordinary English word about corroded metal and nobody notices. That is roughly the same thing this name does with the French adjective: a word carrying a place or a color that no one hears any more.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Neither element carries a sense. The front belongs to a cluster of American names beginning Ver- whose source has never been established, and the ending was borrowed from names where it was part of the word. Any translation offered is invented.
How the name formed
- Verdell
- Verdelle
Pronouncing Verdell
vur-DELL
Two syllables with the weight at the back, which is where names of this shape always put it. The front is unstressed and reduces almost to nothing.
Nicknames for Verdell
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
- 1914
- Most boys named
- 194226 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1326reached in 1936
- Change vs 2007
- −16.7%5 in 2010, from 6
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.
Verdells among us
people named Verdell 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
Verdell 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 stress at the back gives it a decisive finish.
- The spelling follows the sound exactly with nothing to explain.
- It is genuinely rare with no competing associations.
- It looks like it means green and does not, which will be assumed constantly.
- There is no meaning to pass on, whatever other pages claim.
- It leans to girls, but a real share of children with this spelling are boys, so forms will sometimes guess wrong.
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Verdell
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Frequently asked
- How many Verdells are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Verdell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Verdell in 2025?
- Verdell is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Verdell with classmates?
- Verdell will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with V, all years combined.
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