Verne as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Verne

What is the meaning of the name Verne ?

The baby name Verne is a boy name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced VURN.

Verne is French, Gaulish in Origin.

Verne is chiefly a transferred French surname, from Old French verne, the word for an alder tree, especially in southern and western dialects. That noun continues Gaulish *uerno- or *verno-, alder; it is not the Latin alnus, and the separate Latin vernus, springlike, belongs to another root. In place-names, the element marked land where alders grew, so the literal sense is alder or alder place.

As a given name, Verne developed in English-speaking use from the surname and as a short form of Vernon or Laverne. The French novelist Jules Verne made the spelling internationally recognizable in the nineteenth century, though his Verne was a family name. In the United States it was recorded for boys from 1880, reached its best national ranking in 1919, and declined after the mid-twentieth century. Vern, Vernon, and LaVerne are related forms.