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Name Vernon

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From a Old French word for alder

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About the name Vernon in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	English, Irish
Topics:	Asteroid 6518 Vernon, discovered 1990
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Dereon, Erion, Ernö, Eron, Gereon, Gernot, Hernan, Jeron, Keron, Lennon Details

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

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

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Series	Graph	Rankings
USA decades	Graph	1990-1999 613, 1980-1989 354, 1960-1969 188
USA yearly	Graph	2003 959, 2002 920, 2001 878, 2000 841, 1999 756, 1998 751, 1997 692, 1996 661, 1995 691, 1994 627, 1993 588