Vesna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vesna är ett sydslaviskt namn, lika med substantivet vesna som kan betyda ’ljus’ eller ’vår’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʋêsna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vesna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 159(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 177
- SISlovenia1 in 276
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 Vesna 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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 159 (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Vesna är ett sydslaviskt namn, lika med substantivet vesna som kan betyda ’ljus’ eller ’vår’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vesna is read(measured from records)
Vesna is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian65%
proljeće
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-CroatianSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
- English15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vesna in English.
- German5.2%
weibl. Vom. serbischer, kroatischer oder slowenischer Herkunft. Der Name ist eine südslawische Neuprägung zu urslaw. *vesna »Licht, Helligkeit; Frühling«.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vesna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #29 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 159 | listed | Vesna | 82 |
| HR Croatia | #37 | 23,923 | 1 in 177 | 24K | Vesna | 112 |
| MK North Macedonia | #45 | 9,750as Весна | 1 in 218 | 9.8K | Vesna | 45 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #58 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 435 | — | Vesna | 32 |
| SI Slovenia | #48 | 7,607 | 1 in 276 | 7.6K | Vesna | 57 |
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; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Vesna is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Vesna är ett sydslaviskt namn, lika med substantivet vesna som kan betyda ’ljus’ eller ’vår’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Messaggera
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Primavera
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Russian, "Spring."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Vesna Parunb. 1922HRCroatian poet and translator (1922–2010)
- Vesna Vulovićb. 1950RSSerbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute
- Vesna Pusićb. 1953HRCroatian politician
- Vesna Cipcicb. 1954RSSerbian actress, theater actress
- Vesna Zmijanacb. 1957RSMontenegrine-Serbian folk singer
- Vesna Trivalicb. 1965RSSerbian actress
- Vesna Pisarovićb. 1978HRCroatian pop singer
- Vesna Čitakovićb. 1979RSSerbian volleyball player
- Vesna Fabjanb. 1985SISlovenian cross-country skier
- Vesna Doloncb. 1989RURussian tennis player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 24K | #24 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 22K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 7.6K | #50 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 7.6K | #21 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2021 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Vesna mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vesna är ett sydslaviskt namn, lika med substantivet vesna som kan betyda ’ljus’ eller ’vår’.
- How do you pronounce Vesna?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋêsna/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Vesna a male or female name?
- Vesna 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 Vesna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Vesna in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vesna.
- How common is the name Vesna?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 23,923 people named Vesna in 2021, about 1 in 177 residents.
- How common is Vesna compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Vesna is the 29th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vesna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vesnaThe 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, “Vesna” — the 29th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.