Verner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from German, equivalent to English Warner
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Verner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 107K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 134K
- CZCzechia1 in 6.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
3,099 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from German, equivalent to English Warner
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Verner 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 | 3,099 | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Verner | 286 |
| CZ Czechia | 1,585 | 1 in 6.8K | 1.6K | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 280K | 509 | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 1 | Verner | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 230 | Verner | 89 |
| DK Denmark | 151 | 1 in 39K | 1.9K | — | 3 |
| SK Slovakia | 111 | 1 in 49K | 111 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 69 | 1 in 61K | 69 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 135 | — | 12 |
3,099 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Verner is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, altération du nom allemand Werner, du germanique Warinhari, de warin « protection » et hari « armée »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In Swedish, Verner är ett tyskt namn, fornhögtyskt Warinheri. Förleden kan vara en beteckning på en germansk folkstam. Efterleden är -hari/-heri ’härförare, krigare’ (< *haria- → -ar). Namnet har sannolikt fått spridning i Sverige genom författaren Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940). I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 17 augusti.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, J. Karl, Danish philologist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Scandinavian: protecting army; warrior
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Norwegian Bokmål, present of verne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frederick Arthur Vernerb. 1836CACanadian painter (1836-1928)
- Karl Vernerb. 1846DKDanish linguist (1846–1896)
- Frank Vernerb. 1883USAmerican middle and long distance runner (1883–1966)
- Dai Vernonb. 1894CAnot in their usual nameCanadian magician (1894-1992)
- Paul Vernerb. 1911DEGerman politician (1911-1986)
- Waldemar Vernerb. 1914DEGerman admiral (1914-1982)
- Hans Vernerb. 1920DEGerman comedian (1924-1990)
- Miroslav Vernerb. 1941CZCzech egyptologist and university educator
- Marta Jandováb. 1974CZnot in their usual nameCzech singer
- Tomáš Vernerb. 1986CZCzech figure skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 56 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,544 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.6K | #795 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.6K | #786 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1.6K | #794 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 230 | #19,486 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 151 | #3,541 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 111 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 69 | #10,539 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 61 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Verner mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from German, equivalent to English Warner Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Verner?
- In the etymology graph, Garnier, Wetzel and Wessel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Verner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Verner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled verner.
- Where is Verner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Verner is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Verner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,099 people named Verner in 2010, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vernerThe 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, “Verner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.