# Vesna (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vesna/  
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 | Russian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /vɛsnə/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 248 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 248 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Весна́ (Vesná), Ukrainian Весна́ (Vesná), Serbo-Croatian Ве̏сна /Vȅsna, etc. Doublet of Vasant and Basant, of Sanskrit origin.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 7 | 9,282 |
| 1986 | 5 | 12,778 |
| 1987 | 5 | 13,201 |
| 1988 | 5 | 13,826 |
| 1989 | 5 | 14,478 |
| 1990 | 7 | 11,375 |
| 1991 | 7 | 11,473 |
| 1998 | 5 | 16,500 |
| 1999 | 5 | 16,845 |
| 2011 | 8 | 13,284 |
| 2013 | 5 | 19,124 |
| 2019 | 5 | 17,822 |
| 2022 | 5 | 17,586 |
| 2023 | 5 | 17,441 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17,536 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 韋斯娜 /韦斯娜
- Czech: Vesna
- French: Vesna
- Japanese: ヴェスナ
- Korean: 베스나
- Polish: Wesna
- Russian: Весна́
- Slovak: Vesna
- Slovene: Vésna
- Ukrainian: Весна́

## People named Vesna

- Vesna Pusić, Croatian politician
- Vesna Parun, Croatian poet and translator (1922–2010)
- Vesna Pisarović, Croatian pop singer
- Vesna Teršelič, Croatian activist
- Vesna Bajkuša, Bosnia and Herzegovina basketball player (born 1968)
- Vesna Caselotti (Mišanović), Bosnian chess player
- Vesna Girardi-Jurkić, Croatian archeologist, museologist and politician (1944–2012)
- Vesna Škare-Ožbolt, Croatian politician
- Vesna Radović, Austrian handball player

## 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.