Vérnon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vérnon is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 17,480 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Transalpine Gaulish uerna (“alder”) (from Proto-Celtic *wernā, from Proto-Indo-European *wern-) + -o, -onis (locative suffix, literally “place of alder trees”). Vérnon is also written เวอร์นอน in Thai.
- BBBarbados≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.8K
- GDGrenada≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vérnon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 490 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
17,480 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vérnon in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vernon in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Transalpine Gaulishuerna“alder”(measured from records)
- Proto-Celtic*wernā(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*wern-(measured from records)
From Transalpine Gaulish uerna (“alder”) (from Proto-Celtic *wernā, from Proto-Indo-European *wern-) + -o, -onis (locative suffix, literally “place of alder trees”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vérnon is found
(measured from records)Vérnon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 17,480 | 1 in 19K | 56K | Vernon | 490 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Vernon | 201 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 3 | Vernon | 153 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Vernon | 147 |
| FR France | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 119 | Vernon | 6 |
| BB Barbados | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 14 | — | 7 |
| GD Grenada | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 39 | — | 4 |
| KY Cayman Islands | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Vernon | 8 |
17,480 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; the bb-ebc-voter-slices-2025 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vérnon mean, and where does it come from?
- From Transalpine Gaulish uerna (“alder”) (from Proto-Celtic *wernā, from Proto-Indo-European *wern-) + -o, -onis (locative suffix, literally “place of alder trees”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 5 other sources.
- Is Vérnon a male or female name?
- Vérnon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vérnon?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Vérnon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vernon. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vérnon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,480 people named Vérnon in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A9rnonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vérnon” — ranked 828th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.