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Meaning & Origins
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a Norman baronial name from any of various places so called from Gaulish elements meaning ‘place of alders’ (compare Vere).
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English and Welsh: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John). The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. In North America this name has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
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Nicknames & variations
Vernona, Vernan, Vernen, Vernone, Vernamae, Vernonia, Vernin, Verneen, Vernina, Vernena
James, Janes, Jone, Jines, Janek, Janeczko, Joneson, Juneja, Junek, Jonet
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