Veerle
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Veerle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle Dutch [Term?].
- RURussia≈1 in 444Kas Верле(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 52Kas Verley
- ARArgentina1 in 126Kas Werle
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Veerle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
925 named Werle, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, as Verley
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Верле in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Werle in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Middle Dutch [Term?].
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Veerle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 925as Werle | 1 in 360K | 980 | Werle | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 361as Werle | 1 in 126K | 361 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 444K | — | Верле | 91 |
| BE Belgium | 226as Verley | 1 in 52K | 226 | Veerle | 6 |
| PL Poland | 135as Werle | 1 in 284K | 68 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Верле | 23 |
| SE Sweden | 33as Werle | 1 in 309K | 34 | — | — |
925 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Veerle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Belgian: vernacular Flemish form of the old Germanic female personal name Farahilda , composed of the elements fara to go, travel + hild battle. The 8th-century St Farahilda, who was mistreated by her husband because of her extreme Christian zeal, has long been venerated as a patron saint of Ghent.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pharaildisb. 650BEnot in their usual namePatron saint of Ghent
- Veerle Dobbelaereb. 1967BEBelgian actress (born 1967)
- Veerle De Jongheb. 1972BEBelgian actress
- Veerle Dejaeghereb. 1973BEBelgian long-distance runner
- Veerle Geerinckxb. 1973BEBelgian politician and female curler
- Veerle Woutersb. 1974BEBelgian politician
- Veerle Baetensb. 1978BEBelgian actress
- Veerle Casteleynb. 1978BEBelgian actor and ballerina
- Veerle Ingelsb. 1981BEcyclist
- Veerle Buurmanb. 2006NLDutch footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1995 | 47 | #225 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34 | #17,863 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 21 | #440 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 20 | #451 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1996 | 20 | #444 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1998 | 16 | #534 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 13 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2006 | 13 | #696 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Veerle mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle Dutch [Term?]. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Veerle a male or female name?
- Veerle is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Veerle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 925 people named Werle, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Veerle most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Veerle itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Belgium's: the national register counts about 1 in 52 thousand people named Verley.
- How common is the name Veerle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 925 people named Werle in 2010, about 1 in 360 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Veerle?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veerleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Veerle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.