Vereš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ˈvereʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovak · from Wiktionary
Vereš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: # From Hungarian Veres or Romanian Vereș, both from Hungarian veres (“red”). # From Ukrainian Верес (Veres), from Ukrainian верес (veres, “heather”), from Proto-Slavic *versъ (“heather”).
- SKSlovakia1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 19K
- UYUruguay1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,796 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Veres in US United States, ES Spain.
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)- Hungarian Veresor(measured from records)
- Hungarianveres“red”(measured from records)
- UkrainianВересVeres(measured from records)
- Ukrainianвересveres“heather”(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*versъ“heather”(measured from records)
# From Hungarian Veres or Romanian Vereș, both from Hungarian veres (“red”). # From Ukrainian Верес (Veres), from Ukrainian верес (veres, “heather”), from Proto-Slavic *versъ (“heather”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vereš 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 | 1,796 | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Veres | 13 |
| SK Slovakia | 1,131 | 1 in 4.8K | 1.1K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 537 | 1 in 394K | 537 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 447 | 1 in 112K | 447 | Veres | 9 |
| HR Croatia | 225 | 1 in 19K | 225 | Vereš | 19 |
| CZ Czechia | 216 | 1 in 50K | 216 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Vereš | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | 69 | 1 in 49K | 69 | — | — |
1,796 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; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Vereš 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.
In krl, fresh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Adam Verešb. 1883RSSlovak evangelical priest (1883–1931)
- Saša Verešb. 1928RSCroatian writer (1928-1992)
- Tomo Verešb. 1930HRCroatian philosopher (1930–2002)
- Anton Verešb. 1947SISlovenian military officer
- Richard Verešb. 1995CZCzech politician (born 1995)
- Matej VerešSIresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.1K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 225 | #3,680 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 216 | #7,820 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 197 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Vereš mean, and where does it come from?
- # From Hungarian Veres or Romanian Vereș, both from Hungarian veres (“red”). # From Ukrainian Верес (Veres), from Ukrainian верес (veres, “heather”), from Proto-Slavic *versъ (“heather”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- How do you pronounce Vereš?
- It depends on the language: in Slovak /ˈvereʃ/ (Wiktionary); in Czech /ˈvɛrɛʃ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Vereš have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Vereš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled veres.
- Where is Vereš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vereš is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 4.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vereš?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,796 people named Vereš in 2010, about 1 in 185 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vereš?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vere%C5%A1The 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, “Vereš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.