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Vera
Pronounced /ˈvɪə.ɹə/
Rank in 2024
#226
Born in 2024
1,351
Peak year
1918 · #68
Origin
Russian
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,351 girls were named Vera, about 1 in every 1,194.
- It peaked in 1918 with 3,923 babies, ranked #68.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 147,970 girls have been named Vera since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Vera per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 3.2Greatest1901–27
- 1.5Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.7Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 64,873 babies, 3.17 per 1,000. Silent: 30,915 babies, 1.50 per 1,000. Boomers: 19,566 babies, 0.55 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,613 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,787 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,463 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 13,987 babies, 0.69 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed in the nineteenth century from the Russian virtue name Ве́ра (Véra, “faith”). By folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera (“true”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɪə.ɹə/ Rhymes: -ɪəɹə ==== Proper noun ==== Vera A female given name from Russian. 1953 Eric Linklater, The House of Gair, J.Cape, page 214: I killed Vera Cross - - - .I had known her for about three months, and never ceased to wonder if her parents, when they gave her a name, had been totally illiterate or wilfully blasphemous.
- A female given name from Russian.
- Origin
- Russian
- Say it
- /ˈvɪə.ɹə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Vera, CC BY-SA 4.0.