Vernon Surname

12,995th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 43,179 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Belize

Vernon Surname Definition:

A rare surname in Scotland, and most probably of late introduction from south of the Border. The name is territorial probably from Vernon ("place of alders") in the arron-dissement of Evreux. There are, however, sixty-four places so named in France.

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Vernon Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States23,9981:15,1041,900
England9,0001:6,191883
Australia2,6561:10,1641,509
Canada1,6901:21,8022,988
Jamaica1,5641:1,835300
France8331:79,73911,254
Belize6041:589119
New Zealand4281:10,5801,842
Wales4011:7,717858
Scotland3211:16,6792,043
South Africa2811:192,80320,875
Saudi Arabia1991:155,05422,057
Northern Ireland1221:15,1232,057
Ireland951:49,5683,605
Panama941:41,6202,166
Cayman Islands831:770121
Guatemala811:198,5513,805
Portugal571:182,7767,697
Thailand551:1,284,334183,539
Mexico531:2,342,00420,289
Spain501:935,04135,950
Isle of Man351:2,452488
Netherlands291:582,31651,332
Trinidad and Tobago261:52,4614,513
Germany251:3,220,218147,383
Chile231:765,93416,989
Singapore211:262,27211,611
Guyana191:40,1173,928
Qatar191:124,10514,725
Russia191:7,585,424283,555
Argentina171:2,514,318114,515
Papua New Guinea161:509,60763,542
Brazil151:14,271,622267,944
Denmark141:403,19427,097
Jersey141:7,0861,520
India121:63,922,115578,870
Philippines121:8,436,519202,133
United Arab Emirates121:763,52325,625
Sweden111:895,16066,831
Belgium101:1,149,66482,403
Italy101:6,115,669111,715
China91:151,924,6187,954
Bermuda71:9,3261,286
American Samoa61:9,2931,961
Honduras61:1,469,4075,474
Malaysia61:4,915,704170,578
Switzerland61:1,368,81977,571
Bahamas51:78,350887
Croatia51:845,72148,179
Greece51:2,215,95891,893
Israel51:1,711,52784,568
Dominican Republic41:2,608,23320,941
Guernsey41:16,1101,225
Japan41:31,961,07353,820
Romania41:5,019,46862,922
Saint Lucia41:44,6952,207
Sri Lanka41:5,202,14012,146
Tanzania41:13,235,40384,310
Afghanistan31:10,717,72835,605
Colombia31:15,924,69128,711
Kenya31:15,393,30077,493
United States Virgin Islands31:36,7924,502
Venezuela31:10,068,02660,591
Albania21:1,457,02824,967
Cyprus21:442,4389,493
Hong Kong21:3,667,74211,574
Indonesia21:66,124,597756,638
Nigeria21:88,571,379625,098
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Ukraine21:22,761,348425,733
Zimbabwe21:7,719,120118,432
Antigua and Barbuda11:99,1712,137
Aruba11:103,4772,586
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Barbados11:287,4482,772
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
British Virgin Islands11:31,5941,029
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Burundi11:9,804,8522,349
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
Estonia11:1,321,80440,178
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Grenada11:108,5351,793
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Laos11:6,588,3231,961
Latvia11:2,050,04660,295
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Liberia11:4,408,53547,110
Libya11:6,243,9746,186
Malta11:430,2723,380
Mozambique11:27,261,5697,432
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
New Caledonia11:276,22310,363
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Serbia11:7,144,94838,459
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
Vietnam11:92,646,0548,382
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland701:63,2844,864
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England4,6511:5,241797
Scotland1701:22,0192,113
Wales991:15,843942
Jersey121:4,324761
Isle of Man11:54,2692,077
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3,3251:15,1031,937

Vernon (174,047) may also be a first name.

Vernon Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

A rare surname in Scotland, and most probably of late introduction from south of the Border. The name is territorial probably from Vernon ("place of alders") in the arron-dissement of Evreux. There are, however, sixty-four places so named in France. Edward Vernon, surveyor at Drumlanrig, Dumfriesshire, 1742.

The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

(Anglo-French-Celt.) belonging to Vernon (France) [the stem is that of Verney (q.v.): the suff. is either the diminutive -on (Latin -i-on-em), or else it represents, as in some other cases, Latin -i-an-um] de Vernon occurs on the mural list of “Compagnons de Guillaume à la Conquête de l’Angleterre en MLXVI" in Dives Church; and Vernoun figures in the so- called copies of the Roll of Battle Abbey.

William de Vernun.—Patent Rolls, A.D. 1218-19.

Vernon is a common French place- name, but the chief source of the A.-French surname is prob. Vernon, Eure, Normandy.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(French, English) One who came from Vernon (the alder grove), the name of several places in France.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

William de Vernon was lord and owner of the town and district of Vernon sur Seine, in the arrondissement of Louviers in 1052. His eldest son, Richard, accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066, and was one of the seven barons created by the kinglet, Hugh Lupus, the Conqueror's nephew, in his county-palatine of Chester. A Walter de Vernon was also a tenant in chief in co. Bucks, at the time of the Domesday survey.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Local. From Vernon, a place in Normandy.

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

A Norman baronial name. William, Richard, Gervin, Ralph, de Vernon, Normandy 1180- 95 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae). Roger was Baron of Vernon c. 1030, about which time his dau. Blithildis was married. She in 1082 granted to Trinity, Caen, the lands at Vernon given to her by her father Roger. The grant was made with consent of William, her nephew, then Lord of Vernon (Gall. Christ. xi. 70, Instr.). This William recovered Vernon (which had been granted to Count Guy of Burgundy); and from him descended the Barons of Vernon, who held sixty-one knights’ fees in barony; and of whom William de V. founded the Collegiate Church at Vernon in 1160 (Gall. Christ. xi. 583). William I. had several brothers who came to England 1066, viz., 1. Richard; 2. Walter of Cheshire 1086, d. s. p.; 3. Alured of Suffolk, living 1086. Richard held sixteen lordships in barony in Cheshire 1086, and is said to have been heir of his brother Walter. Hugh, his son, had Walter, father of Warin, father of Richard, barons of Shipbroke. The latter had: 1. Warin, ancestor of the Vernons, barons and earls of Shipbroke; 2. William, Chief Justice of Chester, ancestor of the Vernons of Haddon, and of the Lords Vernon.

The Norman People (1874)

From Vernon; a location name. in Normandy. Vernoun in Roll of Battell Abbey; in the Domesday Book, de Vernon.

British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

Vernon: from Vernon in the arrondissement of Evreux. Richard and Walter appear in Domesday. Richard was one of the Barons of the palatinate of Hugh Lupus in Cheshire, and had a castle at Shipbrook on the Wever.

Family Names And Their Story (1913) by Sabine Baring-Gould

Vernon Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Vernon Come From? nationality or country of origin

Vernon (Arabic: فرنون, Hindi: वर्नन, Marathi: वेरनॉन, Russian: Вернон) is carried by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Vernon? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 12,995th most commonly occurring family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 168,775 people. It occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 66 percent of Vernon live; 59 percent live in North America and 59 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 6,034th most prevalent first name on earth, borne by 174,047 people.

Vernon is most commonly held in The United States, where it is held by 23,998 people, or 1 in 15,104. In The United States Vernon is mostly concentrated in: Texas, where 9 percent are found, California, where 9 percent are found and North Carolina, where 8 percent are found. Without taking into account The United States this last name exists in 106 countries. It is also common in England, where 21 percent are found and Australia, where 6 percent are found.

Vernon Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Vernon has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Vernon last name increased 722 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 194 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it increased 405 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it increased 189 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it increased 136 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Vernon Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Vernon surname is principally Catholic (48%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Vernon last name are 17.08% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 63.85% being registered with the party.

The amount Vernon earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 367% more than the national average, earning R 1,109,780 per year; in United States they earn 0.54% less than the national average, earning $42,914 USD per year and in Canada they earn 13.33% more than the national average, earning $56,304 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Vergnon92824/
Vernone9277/
Vernnon9221/
Vearnon9215/
Vernond922/
Vernont922/
Vwernon921/
Hvernon920/
Voernon920/
Viernon920/
Vernoine861/
Bernon832,940/
Varnon83499/
Fernon83331/
Vernan8379/
Wernon8334/
Vrenon8313/
Vernom8311/
Virnon830/
Vornon830/
Vernant77194/
Vernoum7756/
Fearnon7737/
Vernand7734/
Bernoin7715/
Vernang779/
Bernoun775/
Bernone773/
Vernnan772/
Veirnan771/
Vergnan771/
Fernont771/
Veernan771/
Varnuon771/
Bernotn771/
Berrnon771/
Bearnon771/
Berngon771/
Bernnon771/
Bernoon771/
Bergnon771/
Bernonk770/
Bernont770/
Bernond770/
Fiernon770/
Viernan770/
Faernon770/
Vernhamn7124/
Vergnand716/
Fernotin711/
Bernoune711/
Werngnon711/
Vernaten710/
Fernan673,645/
Bernan67969/
Varnan67541/
Farnon67424/
Warnon67305/
Vernam67207/
Bernom6724/
Fernán6713/
Virnan677/
Frenon674/
Wornon673/
Fernão673/
Fornon673/
Birnon671/
Wernan671/
Wrenon671/
Bernón671/
Vernootem671/
Wirnon670/

Vernon Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Vernon in the Hindi language
वर्ननvarnana50
वेरनोनveranona50
Vernon in the Marathi language
वेरनॉनveranona34.38
वेरनोनveranona25
वरनॉनvaranona9.38
वेरनोनांकveranonanka3.13
वेरनverana3.13
बेनोनbenona3.13
वेनोनvenona3.13
बेनॉनbenona3.13
वेनर्नvenarna3.13
वेरनानveranana3.13
वरनोनvaranona3.13
वेरॉनverona3.13
वेरननveranana3.13
Vernon in the Russian language
Вернонvernon-
Vernon in the Arabic language
فرنونfrnwn-

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