Veronica
Feminine · “True image”
Veronica is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 223,775 girls against 834 boys since 1880. See Veronica as a boy name
Veronica is a compound of one Latin word and one Greek one, which is nearly always the mark of an explanation invented after the fact rather than a name that grew.
How old is the name Veronica?
Veronica was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Veronica alive today was born around 1978, making them about 47 years old. About 186,000 people named Veronica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Veronica most popular?
Veronica peaked in 1976, reaching #68 nationally. Today it ranks #427, 359 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
Where it comes from
From Berenice to Veronica
The story of Veronica
An actress who shared the name wore her hair falling over one eye, and the style was copied widely enough that during the war the government asked her to change it: women were losing hair and fingers to factory machinery, and the studio put out photographs of her with it pinned up to make the point. She complied, her films did less well afterward, and she said later that the change had cost her the career. It is a rare case of a hairstyle being treated as a matter of industrial safety, and of a performer being asked, in public, to look less like herself.
Meaningscholars disagree
True image
The usual reading joins the Latin vera to the Greek eikon. A rival account makes it the Latin form of Berenice, a Macedonian name about bringing victory. Names that mix two languages in one compound are ordinarily later constructions, which is the strongest argument against the first reading and in favor of the second.
How the name formed
- Berenice
- Veronica
Related forms: Veronica · Weronika · Veronika
Pronouncing Veronica
vuh-RON-ih-kuh
Four syllables with the stress on the second. Every European language says it close to this.
Nicknames for Veronica
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 19814,313 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #68reached in 1976
- Change vs 2022
- −5.7%730 in 2025, from 774
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Veronica in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Veronica in Italian — same name
- Weronika in Polish — same name
- Veronika in Russian — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Veronicas among us
people named Veronica are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,202 born in 2025 was named Veronica
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Eileen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Veronica's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Eileen climbed just as high around 1943, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Eileen's path sketches the road Veronica is walking now.
Veronica sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Veronica is headed
Veronica should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Veronica beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Veronica in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is at home in a dozen languages without changing its spelling.
- It carries three short forms that sound nothing alike.
- It is formal and familiar at the same time.
- The meaning has two accounts and the tidier one is the weaker.
- It will be shortened to Ronnie whether or not that is wanted.
- The spelling is recorded for both sexes, though nearly every bearer in the record is a girl.
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Feminine · #427 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Veronicas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 186,000 people named Veronica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Veronica in 2025?
- Veronica ranks #427 among US girl names in 2025, with 730 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Veronica?
- About 1 in every 2,202 US girls born in 2025 was named Veronica — 730 in all.
- Will my child share the name Veronica with classmates?
- Veronica will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Veronica
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Trinity#428 · Winter#426 · Leona#429 · Katalina#430 · Sarai#424 · Marceline#424 · London#431 · Opal#423
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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