Veselá

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/vɛsɛlaː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Veselá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 8.8K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 29K

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 Veselá 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.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,800 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
102 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Bulgaria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VeseláLatin(measured from records)
ВеселаCyrillic(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Vesela in BG Bulgaria, HR Croatia, RS Serbia, Vessela in DE Germany, AT Austria and Весела in MK North Macedonia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Veselá 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.

Where Veselá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#171≈4,800 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Vesela102
HR Croatia#7814811 in 8.8K481Vesela20
MK North Macedonia—371as Весела1 in 5.7K371Весела3
RS Serbia—≈240 est.≈1 in 29K—Vesela18
DE Germany—≈130 est.≈1 in 606K—Vessela33
AT Austria—≈53 est.≈1 in 166K—Vessela9

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Veselá is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vesela

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Vesela, Wessela, Veselã, Veselà, Vésela

  • Spanish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Vesela, Vésela, Vęsèlâ

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Vesela

  • Polish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vesela

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Vesela

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Vesela

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Božena Svobodová, b. 1893Jarmila Veselá, b. 1899Libuše Veselá, b. 1900Alena Veselá, b. 1923Barbora Veselá, b. 1956Markéta Veselá, b. 1970Majka Piskořová Veselá, b. 1974Anna Veselá, b. 1977Jana Veselá, b. 1983Ivana Korolová, b. 1988

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalVážený pane / paní Veselá,Dear Veselá, (English)
InformalVážený pane / paní Veselá,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Veselá?
A machine transcription gives /vɛsɛlaː/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Veselá have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Veselá in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vesela.
How common is the name Veselá?
In Croatia, the national register counted 481 people named Veselá in 2021, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
How common is Veselá compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Veselá is the 171st most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.

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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, “Veselá” — the 171st most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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