Fern

proper nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//fɜːn//
United States//fɝːn//

A female given name.

proper noun

1
A female given name.
"Charlotte is the best storyteller I ever heard," said Fern, poking her dish towel into a cereal bowl.
Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Rachel Fern Harris.
2
A topographic surname.

Etymology

From fern; in the case of the surname, it was given to someone who lived in a place where there was an abundance of these plants.

Forms

plural: Ferns

Fergus · A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.Ferguson · A surname transferred from the given name originating in…fern · Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular…

Fern · A female given name.

Fernando · A male given name from Spanish; diminutive forms Fer, Nando.ferocious · Marked by extreme and violent energy.Ferrari · A surname from Italian.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.