# Verena (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/verena/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,989 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 1,989 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 24, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 6,321 |
| 2012 | 22 | 6,098 |
| 2013 | 14 | 8,547 |
| 2014 | 25 | 5,444 |
| 2015 | 23 | 5,819 |
| 2016 | 18 | 6,889 |
| 2017 | 30 | 4,689 |
| 2018 | 22 | 5,773 |
| 2019 | 39 | 3,844 |
| 2020 | 29 | 4,640 |
| 2021 | 28 | 4,826 |
| 2022 | 32 | 4,462 |
| 2023 | 25 | 5,241 |
| 2024 | 35 | 4,204 |
| 2025 | 40 | 3,771 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |

## People named Verena

- Verena Mayr, Austrian athlete
- Verena Hanshaw, Austrian association football player
- Verena, Egyptian saint
- Verena Faißt, German footballer
- Verena Holmes, English mechanical engineer and inventor (1889–1964)
- Verena Eberhardt, Austrian cyclist
- Véréna Paravel, French anthropologist and artist
- Verena Peter, German actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.