Verena
About Verena
Verena is pleasant but old-fashioned. Whether that's the outdated kind of old-fashioned or the so-out-it's-in-again kind is your call.
St. Verena was a third century nurse; Verena Tarrant is a beautiful red-haired character in the Henry James novel The Bostonians.
Pronounced vuh-RAY-nuh.
As of October 2026, Verena ranked #3771 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #869 in 1890.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | #4,686 | 30 | 17.4 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | #3,841 | 39 | 23.2 |
| 2020 | #4,639 | 29 | 17.9 |
| 2021 | #4,822 | 28 | 17.1 |
| 2022 | #4,460 | 32 | 19.5 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | #4,180 | 35 | 21.6 |
| 2025 | #3,771 | 40 | 24.9 |
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Verena on lists
Famous Verenas
- Saint Verena
3rd,century Egyptian nurse who went with the Theban Legion to Switzerland; her name might be a Coptic form of Berenice which is also the source of Veronica
- Verena Mei
American model and actress
- Verena Peter
German actress
- Verena von Strenge
German singer of group Dune
- Verena Carmen Rehm
German singer of group Groove Coverage
- Verena Esther Huber
Dyson, Swiss mathematician
- Verena Merethe von Weymarn
first German woman military general
- Verena Winifred Holmes
English mechanical engineer
- Verena Wagner Lafferentz
granddaughter of German composer Richard Wagner; one,time girlfriend of Hitler
- Verena Faißt
German footballer
- Verena "Vreni" Schneider
Swiss skier
Verena in pop culture
- Verena Tarrant
character in Henry James' "The Bostonians" (1886)
- Verena Simmons
malicious gossip in Holy Deadlock (1934) by A. P. Herbert
- Verena von Stefan
character in film "All I Wanna Do"