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Vernon

Pronounced /ˈvɝnən/

Rank in 2024
#1,553
Born in 2024
112
Peak year
1920 · #65
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 112 boys were named Vernon, about 1 in every 15,315.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 3,144 babies, ranked #65.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 146,276 boys have been named Vernon since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Vernon per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 2.6
    Greatest
  2. 1.9
    Silent
  3. 1.0
    Boomers
  4. 0.5
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 42,747 babies, 2.56 per 1,000. Silent: 39,704 babies, 1.92 per 1,000. Boomers: 36,614 babies, 0.98 per 1,000. Gen X: 14,425 babies, 0.53 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,843 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,595 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,327 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Transalpine Gaulish uerna (“alder”) (from Proto-Celtic *wernā, from Proto-Indo-European *wern-) + -o, -onis (locative suffix, literally “place of alder trees”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈvɝnən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Vernon, CC BY-SA 4.0.