Vesna

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Весна in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia.

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●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Vesna is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name26K records spelled Vesna15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Austria

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Wesna, Vésna, Vesną

• French given name11K records spelled Vesna6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Chile, Serbia, United States

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Vesnà

• Russian given name1.1K records spelled Vesna6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Весна

44 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●

Vesna 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 Serbo-Croatian, proljeće

  as a word·Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

• In German, weibl. Vom. serbischer, kroatischer oder slowenischer Herkunft. Der Name ist eine südslawische Neuprägung zu urslaw. *vesna »Licht, Helligkeit; Frühling«.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Messaggera

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• Primavera

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Russian, "Spring."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 55 years between 1927–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Vesna Parunb. 1922HRCroatian poet and translator (1922–2010)
• Vesna Vulovićb. 1950RSSerbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute
• Vesna Pusićb. 1953HRCroatian politician
• Vesna Cipcicb. 1954RSSerbian actress, theater actress
• Vesna Zmijanacb. 1957RSMontenegrine-Serbian folk singer
• Vesna Trivalicb. 1965RSSerbian actress
• Vesna Pisarovićb. 1978HRCroatian pop singer
• Vesna Čitakovićb. 1979RSSerbian volleyball player
• Vesna Fabjanb. 1985SISlovenian cross-country skier
• Vesna Doloncb. 1989RURussian tennis player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 382 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vesna?

We estimate roughly 44 thousand people bear Vesna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Vesna have the most bearers?

We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Vesna in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vesna.

Where is Vesna most common?

Vesna is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 177 people carrying it.

How common is Vesna compared with other names?

In Croatia, Vesna is the 28th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Vesna a male or female name?

Vesna 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 Vesna mean?

Recorded meaning: Vesna är ett sydslaviskt namn, lika med substantivet vesna som kan betyda ’ljus’ eller ’vår’.