Vesela
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: feminine singular nominal predicative of veselý
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vzɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vesela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- 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 Vesela 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 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(measured from records)
feminine singular nominal predicative of veselý
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vesela is read(measured from records)
Vesela is one spelling over 4 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.
- Czech97%
feminine singular nominal predicative of veselý
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Bulgarian63%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vesela in Bulgarian.
- Croatian16%
inflection of veseo:
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vesela in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Vesela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #171 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Vesela | 102 |
| HR Croatia | #781 | 481 | 1 in 8.8K | 481 | Vesela | 20 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 371as Весела | 1 in 5.7K | 371 | Весела | 3 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Vesela | 18 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 606K | — | Vessela | 33 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Vessela | 9 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vesela Strashimirovab. 1902BGBulgarian poet
- Vesela Letchevab. 1964BGBulgarian sport shooter and politician
- Vessela Kristensenb. 1966BGnot in their usual nameNorwegian professor, geneticist, cancer researcher
- Vesela Kazakovab. 1977BGBulgarian actress
- Veselab. 1978BGBulgarian pop-folk singer
- Vesela Bonchevab. 1990BGBulgarian volleyball player
- Vesela SretenovićUSmuseum curator
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
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 Vesela mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular nominal predicative of veselý Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vesela?
- A machine transcription gives /vzɛɫə/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- Is Vesela a male or female name?
- Vesela 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 Vesela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Vesela in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vesela.
- How common is the name Vesela?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 481 people named Vesela in 2021, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Vesela compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Vesela is the 171st most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vesela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veselaThe 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, “Vesela” — the 171st most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.