Vera

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: on a river bank, Sp. vera (of pre-Roman origin), or habi¬ tation name from one of the several places named with this word. Venter see Deventer Var.: Veras. Venton 'see Fenton Verbeek see Bach

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

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

Vera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 629(measured from records)
  • CNChina≈1 in 3.3K
  • USUnited States1 in 6K

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 Vera 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.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈670,000 named Вера, est.

#177 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
257 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 116 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VeraLatin(measured from records)
ВераCyrillic(measured from records)
ΒεραGreek(measured from records)
ვერაGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Вера in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, CN China and 1 more.

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 Slavic vera ‘faith’, later used in Russian and other languages.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Vera is read(measured from records)

Vera is one spelling over 2 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.

  • Spanish81%

    on a river bank, Sp. vera (of pre-Roman origin), or habi¬ tation name from one of the several places named with this word. Venter see Deventer Var.: Veras. Venton 'see Fenton Verbeek see Bach

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • English8.9%

    A skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

Vera 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 Vera is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#45≈670,000 est.≈1 in 213#18Вера198
CN China—≈430,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Вера41
BR Brazil—336,3671 in 629377KVera187
US United States—55,7951 in 6K56KVera257
KZ Kazakhstan#62≈42,000 est.≈1 in 4563.7KВера48
MD Moldova—28,8821 in 11629K—21
LV Latvia—4,9931 in 3775KVera29
MK North Macedonia#8214,184as Вера1 in 5084.2KВера13

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); 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)

Vera is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Verá, Vërä, Verä, Vérá, V'Era

  • English surname34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Verá, Věra, Véra, Vërä, Verâ

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Věra, Véra, Vĕra, Vêra, Verá

  • Indonesian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Peru, Ecuador

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Vera, Vera', Verá, Věra, Vèra

  • Swedish surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Denmark, Spain

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Véra, Vèrà, Věra, Vëraa, Vĕřä

  • Finnish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Spain, Ecuador, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Vërä, Vëřä, Věra, Véra

96 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Vera 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 French, From Slavic vera ‘faith’, later used in Russian and other languages.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Latin and Slavic origins; Latin vera ‘victory’, Slavic vera ‘faith’.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Russian name, meaning ‘faith’, introduced to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century. It coincides in form with the feminine form of the Latin adjective verus ‘true’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Portuguese, feminine singular of vero

    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)

18001850190019502000José Eduvigis Díaz, b. 1833María Teresa Vera, b. 1895Gerardo Vera, b. 1947Ángel Herrera Vera, b. 1957Joey Vera, b. 1963Yvonne Vera, b. 1964Gustavo Munúa, b. 1978Enrique Vera, b. 1979Urko Vera, b. 1987Tomás Barrios Vera, b. 1997

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)

FormalEstimada Sra. Vera,Dear Ms Vera, (English)
InformalHola Vera,Hi Vera, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 130 sources across 61 countries.

Official registers attesting Vera
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201034K#1,031
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202033K#1,043
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200025K#1,319

Reference works 8

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 Vera?
A machine transcription gives /beɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Vera mean?
In Spanish, on a river bank, Sp. vera (of pre-Roman origin), or habi¬ tation name from one of the several places named with this word. Venter see Deventer Var.: Veras. Venton 'see Fenton Verbeek see Bach
Where does the name Vera come from?
From Slavic vera ‘faith’, later used in Russian and other languages. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
What are other forms of the name Vera?
In the etymology graph, Viera is a form of the same name in other languages; Veer is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Vera have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 666 thousand people named Вера in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vera most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vera is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 116 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Vera?
In Brazil, the national register counted 336,367 people named Vera in 2022, about 1 in 629 residents.
How common is Vera compared with other names?
In Russia, Vera is the 45th most common given name of 472,143 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, “Vera” — the 45th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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