Name meaning & stats
Vern
Vern means “place of alder trees”. 5,090 US babies since 1940, peak 1954.
What it means
“place of alder trees”
Pet form of Vernon
In US birth records
Peak year: 1954
5,090 US babies were named Vern between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Vern (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 16 Vernons spell it Vern
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1954)