Verena

given name · German · Latin script

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

Verena is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Austria it is the 73rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin: 'one who venerates the Lord' or 'sacred wisdom'.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria1 in 369◐
  • DEGermany1 in 1.3K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.6K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
223 ●

113K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 19K ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

VerenaLatin · German●147K records
เวเรน่าThai · Thai●2 records
ΒερέναGreek · Greek●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Latin: 'one who venerates the Lord' or 'sacred wisdom'

Sources 1

  • African Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Verena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#25591,46081K rec.—6Verena223
AT Austria#7344,8936.8K rec.—11KVerena133
CH Switzerland#1125,4461.9K rec.——Verena87
BR Brazil—3,080△14 rec.1 in 69K3.1KVerena4
GB United Kingdom—1,9561.5K rec.——Verena75
US United States—1,75213K rec.1 in 190K1.8KVerena220
AU Australia—1,4491.3K rec.—1Verena74
IT Italy—952851 rec.—1Verena59
NL Netherlands—899455 rec.1 in 19K899Verena39
BE Belgium—707700 rec.—5Verena30
CA Canada—343423 rec.—1Verena45
ES Spain—3361.4K rec.1 in 149K336Verena52

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German147K60%
  • Portuguese47K19%
  • English20K8%
  • Spanish14K6%
  • French2.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German147,42360%
Portuguese46,56619%
English19,6138%
Spanish13,5356%
French2,8071%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Verena is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name65K records spelled Verena6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Vërënä, Véréna

  • a separate given name2.1K records spelled Verena3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Véréna, Verená

  • Finnish given name1.5K records spelled Verena5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Veréna, Véréna

  • Indonesian given name917 records spelled Verena3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Vereña

  • Croatian given name855 records spelled Verena7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Switzerland, United States, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Верена

54 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●

Verena is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A female given name of German origin

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

  • In German, Schweizer Hl. Verener, Frehner, Fröh- ner (NS). Frehner 1617 = Frendorf 1613

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In English, name of a 3rd-century saint

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, saint's name; Swiss form

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • Que posee la sabiduría sagrada

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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.

Over time●

020406019001950200043 · 1916

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Verena in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1890–2025
Yearrecords
189011
18917
18938
18947
189512
18966
18978
189814
189911
190013
190110
19036
19057
19067
190710
190811
19099
191010
19116
191215
191323
191426
191523
191643
191734
191830
191934
192029
192135
192235
192329
192429
192529
192621
192725
192817
192915
193017
193121
193218
193313
193411
193510
193616
19379
193811
19399
194010
194114
194211
19439
19447
19455
19469
19478
194813
194913
195014
195114
195214
195319
195414
19558
195614
19577
195813
195910
196011
196111
196213
196311
19649
196512
19669
196716
196810
196912
197014
197115
197212
19739
19746
19759
197612
197711
19789
19799
198013
19815
19825
198310
19849
19857
198615
19877
19885
198910
19909
199113
199210
19938
19948
19967
199714
19987
199910
200016
200112
20028
200318
20046
200522
200621
200717
200813
200919
201016
201121
201222
201314
201425
201523
201618
201730
201822
201939
202029
202128
202232
202325
202435
202540

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 132 years between 1890–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Verena Wagner Lafferentz, b. 1920Verena Huber-Dyson, b. 1923Verena Peter, b. 1954Vreni Schneider, b. 1964Verena Buratti, b. 1965Verena S. Freytag, b. 1973Verena Bentele, b. 1982Verena Altenberger, b. 1987Verena Hubertz, b. 1987Verena Faißt, b. 1989

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 71 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Verena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202411K#552
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.1K#3,822
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3K#4,623
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#8,303
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—899#1,380
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—579#2,919
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—336#6,071
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—328#2,840
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—286#3,698
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020254—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—247#3,075

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 590 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Verena?
We estimate roughly 6.6 thousand people bear Verena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Verena have the most bearers?
Verena is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled verena.
How common is Verena compared with other names?
In Germany, Verena is the 255th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Verena a male or female name?
Verena 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.
What does the name Verena mean?
Recorded meaning: Latin: 'one who venerates the Lord' or 'sacred wisdom'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Verena” — the 255th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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