🔥Vera

Russian

"faith"

Updated Mon Sep 02 2024

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.

# 223 in the US

Vera Rank in US Top 1000

# 103 on Nameberry

Vera Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Vera Popularity

223US2023
103Nameberry2024
150Future2028
639England2021
447Germany2016
58Netherlands2023
28Spain2022
100Portugal2014
4Sweden2022
34Denmark2023
174Switzerland2023

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Famous People Named Vera

VeraEllen (Westmeier Rohe), American actress and dancer
Vera Ann FarmigaAmerican actress
Vera Lynn (born Vera Margaret Welch)English singer/songwriter/actress
Vera WangAmerican fashion designer
Vera Miles (born Vera June Ralston)American actress
Vera Jayne Palmerbirth name of American actress Jayne Mansfield
Vera BrittainEnglish writer and feminist
Vera Mindy Chokalingambirth name of actress Mindy Kaling
Vera RubinAmerican astronomer
Vera MatovicYugoslavian singer
Vera CaslavskaCzech Olympic gymnast

Vera Bluebirth name Celia Pavey, Australian singer,songwriter
Vera BrosgolCartoonist 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 RositsanLithuanian rhythmic gymnast
Vera PauwDutch soccer coach

Vera in Pop Culture

Vera Elizabeth Claythornecharacter in Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None"
VeraJayne Cobb's gun on TV's "Firefly"
Vera Bradleyfashion bag brand
Vera Batescharacter on TV's "Downton Abbey"
Vera Mishamcharacter in video game 'Ace Attorney'
Veracharacter in "The Water Wars" by Cameron Stracher
"Vera" song by Pink Floyd
Vera PetersonNorm's wife on TV's "Cheers"
Veracharacter in movie "Home Alone 4"
Veracharacter in movie At the devil's door
Vera Whiteferncharacter in book My Sweet Audrina

Veracharacter in movie "Hi,Line"
Vera Charlescharacter from book/movie "Auntie Mame"
"Vera Drake" 2004 film and its main character
Vera Brittaincharacter in the movie "Testament of Youth"
Vera Vertospell from Harry Potter that turns an animal into a water goblet
Vera RossakoffRussian Countess character in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot
Vera Kuriginacharacter in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
Vera Dietzmain character in novel 'Please Ignore Vera Dietz' by A.S. King
Vera Devinishcharacter in TV's "House of Anubis"
Vera Stanhopemain character of Ann Cleeves's detective series and the Vera crime drama TV series

Vera Donovancharacter in Stephen King's "Dolores Claiborne"
Vera Oberlincharacter in "Monster Prom"
Vera Bennettcharacter in “Wentworth”
Vera "Granny Rags" Moraycharacter in the video game Dishonored
Vera Stonecharacter in Netflix's "The Order"