🔥Vera

Russian

"faith"

Vera Origin and Meaning

The name Vera is a girl's name of Russian origin meaning "faith".

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.

Vera Rank in US Top 1000

# 223 in the US

Vera Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 97 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Vera

• 223 US 2023
• 97 Nameberry 2025
• 150 Future 2028
• 726 England 2023
• 447 Germany 2016
• 78 Netherlands 2024
• 37 Spain 2023
• 100 Portugal 2014
• 5 Sweden 2024
• 34 Denmark 2023
• 174 Switzerland 2023

20 Names Similar to Vera

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Vera.

• Colette
• Fiona
• Sylvie
• Thea
• Vivienne
• Cecily
• Celia
• Emmeline
• Gwendolyn
• Ingrid
• Odette
• Esme
• Estelle
• Felicity
• Ada
• Rosalie
• Ines
• Blythe
• Sylvia
• Imogen

Famous People Named Vera

• 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

The name 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"

International Variations of the name Vera

• Verania French
• Wiercia Polish
• Veira French
• Verunka Czech
• Wiera Polish
• Veranina French
• Véra French
• Vérane French
• Vjera Russian
• Veera Finnish
• Varena French
• Ver French
• Wierka Polish
• Vériane French
• Verushka Czech
• Wera Swedish
• Verasha Russian
• Vreni French
• Verinka Russian
• Verana Spanish
• Verusya Russian
• Verka Russian
• Viera Czech
• Verbena Spanish
• Veradis Latin
• Verochka Russian
• Vere French
• Verena Spanish
• Veradisia Latin