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Name Verna

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From a Old French word for alder

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About the name Verna in particular

Gender:	female
Languages of use:	English
Popularity:	no rank in any popularity list in this database
Similarly written:	Verna, Erna, Vera, Vera, Verena, Verina, Verona, Vesna, Virna, Aarna Details

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About Vernon/Verna, the group of names with the same origin as Verna

Language of origin:	Old French
Info about origin, female:	sometimes understood by people to be related to Latin ver (spring) or vernus (of spring)
Info about origin, male:	from an aristocratic family name, brought to England by the Normans
	the name contains the word vern (alder), so maybe the family name derives from a place name with a meaning of alder tree forest or similar
Words:	vern = the alder (a tree) Old French
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	188:Vernon USA 1960-1969
Name variants:	Verna, Vernetta, Vernon Sortable list Details