Vernon
About Vernon
Once aristocratic British surname yet to be revived. Vince Vaughn recently gave his son the same double initials as his own when he named him Vernon Vaughn.
Pronounced VER-nun.
As of October 2026, Vernon ranked #1387 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #65 in 1920, Nameberry popularity #936.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,387 | 123 | 64 |
| 2015 | #1,545 | 106 | 55.3 |
| 2016 | #1,521 | 111 | 58.5 |
| 2017 | #1,475 | 115 | 62.1 |
| 2018 | #1,602 | 103 | 56.7 |
| 2019 | #1,505 | 114 | 63.5 |
| 2020 | #1,866 | 80 | 46.3 |
| 2021 | #1,450 | 125 | 71.4 |
| 2022 | #1,531 | 118 | 67.6 |
| 2023 | #1,630 | 107 | 62.6 |
| 2024 | #1,557 | 112 | 65 |
| 2025 | #1,387 | 133 | 77.9 |
World rankings
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Vernon on lists
Famous Vernons
- Vernon Davis
American football player
- Vernon Kay
English TV personality
- Vernon Elvis Presley
father of pop icon Elvis Presley
- Vernon Duke
American composer and songwriter
- Vernon Reid
English,American guitarist of band Living Colour
- Vernon L. Smith
winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Vernon Michael Wells III
American baseball player
- Vernon Hansol Chwe
Korean,American rapper and member of the boy band Seventeen
- Vernon Lindsay Vaughn (b. 2013)
son of American actor Vince Vaughn
Vernon in pop culture
- Vernon Dahlart
character in the movie "Terms of Endearment"
- Vernon Boyd
character in MTV show "Teen Wolf"
- Vernon Dursley
character in the "Harry Potter" series
- Vernon Wormer
dean in film "National Lampoon's Animal House"
- Vernon Gaines
character on TV sitcom "A Different World"
- Vernon Francis "Frank" Gallagher
main character on TV's "Shameless"
- Mount Vernon
Virginia, plantation home of 1st U.S. President George Washington
- Vernon Walther
character in the webcomic "Riverside Extras" by Miri Chamberlain
- Vernon Fenwick
character cameraman in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Franchise