Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Masculine Usage Cornish Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 3/5/2012 by anonymous Edited 4/11/2015 by Frollein Gladys Meaning & History From the name of a Cornish town, which is taken from Sen Veryan meaning "Saint Veryan", a Cornish corruption of Severian, itself a corrupted form of Symphorian (the saint to whom the village church is dedicated).