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Vernon
VUR-nuhn
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A surname of Anglo-Norman origin, taken from a town of the same name in Normandy, France; also a common English given name.
"His grandfather, Vernon, emigrated from Liverpool in the 1950s."
"Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate, was named after a British admiral."
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Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA given name and surname, and the name shared by many towns across the English-speaking world (most famously Mount Vernon).
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Etymology
From a Norman place name meaning roughly "place of alder trees", tracing back to a Celtic word for the alder tree.