Vera
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About Vera
Vera was the height of fashion in 1910, then was for a long time difficult to picture embroidered on a baby blanket. Now, though, it has come back into style along with other old-fashioned simple names such as Ada and Iris.
Vera was barely known in the English-speaking world until it appeared in the 1860 novel by Ouida, Moths, and Vera Rostov is a character in War and Peace, published nine years later.
Vern Yip has a young daughter called Vera, and Vera Wang and Vera Famiga have modernized it. Vera Lynn was an iconic British World War II singer, Vera Miles was a Hitchcock star best known for her role as Lila Crane in Psycho and Vera-Ellen (born without the hyphen) was a dancing partner of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
Pronounced VER-uh.
As of October 2026, Vera ranked #205 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #65 in 1915, Nameberry popularity #72.
Editor's take: The name Vera is a girl's name of Russian origin meaning "faith".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #365 | 891 | 498.8 |
| 2015 | #310 | 1,054 | 590.4 |
| 2016 | #308 | 1,059 | 597.6 |
| 2017 | #280 | 1,160 | 671.9 |
| 2018 | #257 | 1,264 | 743.1 |
| 2019 | #253 | 1,284 | 765 |
| 2020 | #246 | 1,221 | 755.3 |
| 2021 | #229 | 1,310 | 798.4 |
| 2022 | #224 | 1,339 | 816.4 |
| 2023 | #223 | 1,333 | 830.7 |
| 2024 | #226 | 1,351 | 833.9 |
| 2025 | #205 | 1,482 | 922.1 |
World rankings
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Vera on lists
Famous Veras
- Vera
Ellen (Westmeier Rohe), American actress and dancer
- Vera Ann Farmiga
American actress
- Vera Lynn (born Vera Margaret Welch)
English singer/songwriter/actress
- Vera Wang
American fashion designer
- Vera Miles (born Vera June Ralston)
American actress
- Vera Jayne Palmer
birth name of American actress Jayne Mansfield
- Vera Brittain
English writer and feminist
- Vera Mindy Chokalingam
birth name of actress Mindy Kaling
- Vera Rubin
American astronomer
- Vera Matovic
Yugoslavian singer
- Vera Caslavska
Czech Olympic gymnast
- Vera Blue
birth name Celia Pavey, Australian singer,songwriter
- Vera Brosgol
Cartoonist and author
- Vera Evgenieva Aldonina (b. 2006)
daughter of actress Yulia Nachalova and footballer Evgeni Aldonin
- Vera Lillian Beatrix Yip (b. 2011)
daughter of American interior designer Vern Yip
- Vera Valdés Cardona (b. 2013)
daughter of footballer Victor Valdés and model Yolanda Cardona
- Vera Yevgenyeva Tsyganova (b. 2015)
daughter of actors Irina Leonova and Yevgeny Tsyganov
- Vera Alexandrovna Terekhova (b. 2015)
daughter of singer Tatiana Naynik and actor Alexander Terekhov
- Elisabeth Vera Rositsan
Lithuanian rhythmic gymnast
- Vera Pauw
Dutch soccer coach
Vera in pop culture
- Vera Elizabeth Claythorne
character in Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None"
- Vera
Jayne Cobb's gun on TV's "Firefly"
- Vera Bradley
fashion bag brand
- Vera Bates
character on TV's "Downton Abbey"
- Vera Misham
character in video game 'Ace Attorney'
- Vera
character in "The Water Wars" by Cameron Stracher
- "Vera
" song by Pink Floyd
- Vera Peterson
Norm's wife on TV's "Cheers"
- Vera
character in movie "Home Alone 4"
- Vera
character in movie At the devil's door
- Vera Whitefern
character in book My Sweet Audrina
- Vera
character in movie "Hi,Line"
- Vera Charles
character from book/movie "Auntie Mame"
- "Vera Drake
" 2004 film and its main character
- Vera Brittain
character in the movie "Testament of Youth"
- Vera Verto
spell from Harry Potter that turns an animal into a water goblet
- Vera Rossakoff
Russian Countess character in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot
- Vera Kurigina
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Vera Dietz
main character in novel 'Please Ignore Vera Dietz' by A.S. King
- Vera Devinish
character in TV's "House of Anubis"
- Vera Stanhope
main character of Ann Cleeves's detective series and the Vera crime drama TV series
- Vera Donovan
character in Stephen King's "Dolores Claiborne"
- Vera Oberlin
character in "Monster Prom"
- Vera Bennett
character in “Wentworth”
- Vera "Granny Rags" Moray
character in the video game Dishonored
- Vera Stone
character in Netflix's "The Order"
Variations & nicknames
- VeraniaFrench
- WierciaPolish
- VeiraFrench
- VerunkaCzech
- WieraPolish
- VeraninaFrench
- VéraFrench
- VéraneFrench
- VjeraRussian
- VeeraFinnish
- VarenaFrench
- VerFrench
- WierkaPolish
- VérianeFrench
- VerushkaCzech
- WeraSwedish
- VerashaRussian
- VreniFrench
- VerinkaRussian
- VeranaSpanish
- VerusyaRussian
- VerkaRussian
- VieraCzech
- VerbenaSpanish
- VeradisLatin
- VerochkaRussian
- VereFrench
- VerenaSpanish
- VeradisiaLatin