Vernon
16,596 people in the United States were counted with the surname Vernon in the 2020 census, making it the 2,121st most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 16,596
- Rank
- 2,121st
- How common
- 1 in 18,000
- Per 100,000
- 5.6
Where the name comes from
Origin Anglo-Norman
From xtg uerna (“alder”) (from Proto-Celtic *wernā, from Proto-Indo-European *wern-) + -o, -onis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Vernon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Vernon
- Conrad Vernon (born 1968)American film and television director, storyboard artist, writer and voice actor
- John Vernon (1932–2005)Canadian actor
- Ethan Vernon (born 2000)British cyclist
- Anne Vernon (born 1924)French actress
- Kate Vernon (born 1961)Canadian-born film and television actress
- Edward Vernon (1684–1757)Royal Navy admiral
- Justin Vernon (born 1981)American singer-songwriter
- Howard Vernon (1908–1996)Swiss actor
People named Vernon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Vernon
Also a first name
Vernon has been given to 148,389 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.