Veronica
Masculine · “True image”
Veronica is given to girls far more often — 223,775 girls against 834 boys since 1880. See Veronica as a girl 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 first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Veronica alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 800 people named Veronica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Veronica most popular?
Veronica peaked in 1985, reaching #1504 nationally. See the whole 1985 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
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
- 1916
- Most boys named
- 198948 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1504reached in 1985
- Change vs 2006
- +40.0%7 in 2007, from 5
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
Veronicas among us
people named Veronica are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Veronica sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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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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 800 people named Veronica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Veronica in 2025?
- Veronica is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Veronica with classmates?
- Veronica will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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