Save Gender Masculine Usage German, Germanic [1] Pronounced Pron. /ˈvɛʁn.hɐ/(German) [key·simplify] Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Variant of Werner. A famous bearer was the German-American rocket engineer Wernher von Braun (1912-1977). Related NamesFamily Tree·Details Rootswar + heriVariantsWerner(German) Warinheri(Germanic) DiminutiveWetzel(German) Other Languages & CulturesVerner(Danish) Werner, Wessel(Dutch) Wessel(Frisian) Irnerius(History) Garnier(Medieval French) Verner(Swedish) Sources & References Förstemann, Ernst. Altdeutsches Namenbuch. Bonn, 1900, page 1544.
