Fern (name)

Fern is an English topographic name from the Old English ‘’fearn’’. It refers to someone who lives among ferns. The name is used as a given name and a surname.^[1]^[2]

Notable people with the name Fern or Ferns include:

Given name[]

Fern Andra (1893-1974), American actress
Fern Battaglia (1931-2001), American baseball player
Fern Bell (1913-2000), American baseball player
Fern Brady (born 1986), Scottish comedian
Fern Britton (born 1957), English television presenter
Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956), Canadian poet
Fern Schumer Chapman (born 1954), American journalist
Fern Coppedge (1883-1951), American painter
Fern Cunningham, American sculptor
Fern Deacon (born 1998), English actress
Fern Emmett (1896-1946), American film actress
Fern Ferguson, American baseball player
Fern Fitzgerald (born 1947), American actress
Fern Gauthier (1919-1992), Canadian ice hockey player
Fern Headley (1901-1956), American ice hockey player
Fern Hobbs (1883-1964), American attorney
Fern Holland (1970-2004), American lawyer
Fern Hunt (born 1948), American mathematician
Fern Jones (born 1923), American gospel singer
Fern Kinney (born 1949), American singer
Fern Kupfer (born 1946), American author
Fern LeBlanc (born 1956), French professional ice hockey player
Fern Majeau (1916-1966), French ice hockey player
Fern Mallis (born 1948), American consultant
Fern Michaels (born 1933), American author
Fern Hubbard Orme (born 1903), American politician
Fern Perreault (born 1927), French ice hockey player
Fern Persons (1910-2012), American film actress
Fern Rahmel (1914-2009), Canadian writer
Fern Riddell (born 1986), British historian
Fern Rivard (1946-1993), Canadian ice hockey player
Fern Flanagan Saddler (born 1955), American judge
Fern Sawyer (1917-1993), American cowgirl
Fern Shaffer (born 1944), American painter
Fern Shubert, Republican political figure
Fern Shumate (1910-2003), American writer
Fern Shollenberger (1923-1977), American baseball player
Fern M. Smith (born 1933), American judge
Fern Blodgett Sunde (1918-1991), Canadian wireless radio operator
Fern Sutherland (born 1987), New Zealand actress
Fern Villeneuve (1927-2019), Canadian aviator
Fern Whelan (born 1988), English footballer

Stage name[]

Fern (rapper) (born 1979), Puerto Rican rapper

Surname[]

Charlie Fern, American speechwriter and journalist
Cody Fern, Australian actor, screenwriter
Fanny Fern, pseudonym of American writer Sara Willis Parton
Fritzi Fern, motion picture actress from Akron, Ohio
George Fern, English footballer
Harold Fern, British president of swimming's world governing body FINA
Henry Ferne, Chaplain Extraordinary to Charles I
Joseph J. Fern, first Mayor of Honolulu
Rodney Fern (1948–2018), English footballer
Ronald Ferns, English illustrator, designer, cartoonist and surrealist painter
Tan Paey Fern, Singaporean table tennis player
Tom Fern, English footballer

Fictional characters[]

Fern Arable, from E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
Fern the Green Fairy, one of The Rainbow Fairies from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
Fern Martin from the film The Hard Man
Fern Mayo/Vylette from Jawbreaker, 1998 black comedy film
Fern Walters, from the children's book and animated television series Arthur
Fern, from Magical × Miracle

References[]

^ Hanks, Patrick (8 May 2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. 566. ISBN 978-0-19-977169-1.
^ Seary, E.; Kirwin, William (1 November 1998). Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7735-6741-2.

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[1] Hanks, Patrick (8 May 2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. 566. ISBN 978-0-19-977169-1.

[2] Seary, E.; Kirwin, William (1 November 1998). Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7735-6741-2.

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