<P> Vernon is a surname, from a masculine name that is derived from the Gaul word vern for Alder tree (also springlike, flourishing, or full of life) and a Gaulish - Latin suffix indicating a location . Thus Vernon is a "place of alders". Variants include Vern, Vernard, Verne, Verna, Sberna, Sberno . Vernon was introduced into England as an aristocratic surname at the time of the Norman conquest . It was adapted into Spanish as "Vernón". </P> <P> The earliest known use of Vernon as a surname dates from 1031 in Normandy, when a Hugh son of Roger de Vernon granted the church of St Peter in Fourques (probably either the present day Saint Paul de Fourques or St Eloi de Fourques) to the Abbey of St Ouen in Rouen . </P>

What is the meaning of the name vernon