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The Somerset place-name is in fact Wearne, the same as your surname. This is the likeliest origin of your name. Otherwise it might be a variant of Warne, a Cornish place-name and surname. Warne is said to be Cornish, meaning either "swamp" or "alder trees". I imagine Wearne in Somerset has the meaning (whichever), dating from a period when the Celtic influence reached further east.