Verena Forename
8,195th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 126,920 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Switzerland
Verena Forename Definition:
A female name. a German name, probably a derivative of some name in varin (cf. Warner, Warren), occasionally borrowed and used in England in modern times.
Verena Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 57,850 | 1:1,671 | 302 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 38,507 | 1:213 | 43 |
| Austria | 100% | 10,168 | 1:837 | 178 |
| Brazil | 100% | 3,271 | 1:65,496 | 4,240 |
| United States | 100% | 2,299 | 1:157,693 | 6,099 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 1,619 | 1:32,606 | 2,797 |
| Uganda | 100% | 1,453 | 1:28,188 | 2,050 |
| Italy | 100% | 1,451 | 1:42,083 | 1,247 |
| England | 100% | 1,054 | 1:52,754 | 2,453 |
| Colombia | 96% | 926 | 1:51,597 | 2,289 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 809 | 1:20,893 | 1,980 |
| Chile | 100% | 604 | 1:29,151 | 1,329 |
| Cuba | - | 565 | 1:20,366 | 1,071 |
| Egypt | 100% | 564 | 1:162,945 | 6,404 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 458 | 1:563,239 | 41,052 |
| Thailand | 100% | 425 | 1:164,861 | 11,677 |
| South Africa | 100% | 404 | 1:134,982 | 9,870 |
| Spain | 100% | 335 | 1:138,895 | 3,414 |
| France | 100% | 267 | 1:248,953 | 3,664 |
| Argentina | 100% | 255 | 1:167,738 | 2,299 |
| Canada | 100% | 252 | 1:131,482 | 5,970 |
| Belgium | 100% | 233 | 1:49,313 | 2,438 |
| Philippines | 99% | 208 | 1:509,661 | 16,930 |
| Mexico | 100% | 207 | 1:599,732 | 6,198 |
| Malawi | 100% | 169 | 1:101,256 | 5,457 |
| Namibia | - | 158 | 1:15,216 | 1,549 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 136 | 1:76,701 | 4,403 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 135 | 1:18,213 | 1,210 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 110 | 1:671,160 | 22,021 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 108 | 1:149,152 | 2,645 |
| Australia | - | 101 | 1:135,224 | 4,316 |
| Suriname | 100% | 99 | 1:5,584 | 1,159 |
| Sweden | 100% | 97 | 1:101,628 | 4,340 |
| Peru | 100% | 94 | 1:338,207 | 7,067 |
| Jamaica | - | 86 | 1:33,526 | 2,222 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 86 | 1:84,149 | 2,346 |
| Portugal | - | 83 | 1:125,432 | 3,169 |
| New Zealand | - | 78 | 1:58,154 | 2,996 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 77 | 1:392,232 | 11,391 |
| Croatia | 100% | 70 | 1:60,244 | 1,899 |
| Norway | 100% | 67 | 1:76,602 | 2,741 |
| Denmark | - | 60 | 1:94,158 | 2,776 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 59 | 1:642 | 144 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 56 | 1:543,749 | 23,143 |
| Scotland | 100% | 56 | 1:95,542 | 2,303 |
| Wales | 100% | 54 | 1:57,302 | 1,861 |
| Ireland | 100% | 38 | 1:122,198 | 2,794 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 36 | 1:167,176 | 4,628 |
| Zimbabwe | 92% | 36 | 1:428,439 | 20,391 |
| Saint Lucia | 96% | 31 | 1:5,736 | 925 |
| Greece | 100% | 28 | 1:390,520 | 5,921 |
| Latvia | 100% | 28 | 1:71,987 | 1,639 |
| Singapore | 100% | 28 | 1:224,538 | 8,753 |
| Ecuador | - | 27 | 1:656,553 | 6,193 |
| Russia | 100% | 25 | 1:5,769,348 | 26,670 |
| Malta | - | 23 | 1:18,668 | 1,434 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 22 | 1:61,883 | 5,136 |
| India | 96% | 20 | 1:60,743,899 | 978,266 |
| El Salvador | - | 19 | 1:333,778 | 3,659 |
| Hong Kong | - | 17 | 1:456,043 | 4,226 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 16 | 1:297,997 | 5,686 |
| Finland | 72% | 16 | 1:342,699 | 4,640 |
| Rwanda | - | 16 | 1:710,715 | 1,599 |
| Serbia | 100% | 16 | 1:446,608 | 4,712 |
| China | - | 15 | 1:91,070,385 | 64,310 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 15 | 1:476,800 | 16,943 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 15 | 1:228,509 | 3,962 |
| Czechia | 100% | 11 | 1:968,742 | 3,396 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 10 | 1:56,405 | 2,050 |
| Qatar | 100% | 10 | 1:236,960 | 22,379 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 10 | 1:11,158 | 1,580 |
| Bolivia | - | 9 | 1:1,177,934 | 3,617 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 9 | 1:2,401,167 | 48,579 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 9 | 1:19,729,373 | 174,791 |
| Papua New Guinea | 80% | 9 | 1:905,813 | 63,479 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 9 | 1:2,311,010 | 7,931 |
| Turkey | 100% | 9 | 1:8,644,634 | 30,028 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 7 | 1:998,627 | 10,919 |
| Jersey | - | 7 | 1:14,283 | 1,073 |
| Honduras | 100% | 6 | 1:1,469,578 | 13,832 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 6 | 1:3,845,989 | 64,391 |
| Kenya | 100% | 6 | 1:7,717,852 | 32,954 |
| Monaco | 100% | 6 | 1:6,411 | 917 |
| Israel | - | 5 | 1:1,680,584 | 18,495 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 5 | 1:4,753,936 | 76,486 |
| Angola | 100% | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Panama | - | 4 | 1:976,639 | 21,104 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Hungary | 100% | 3 | 1:3,263,924 | 4,413 |
| Mauritius | - | 3 | 1:432,595 | 7,262 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 2 | 1:921,573 | 3,058 |
| Albania | 100% | 2 | 1:1,523,285 | 33,816 |
| Armenia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,459,376 | 10,220 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Congo | 100% | 2 | 1:2,504,602 | 31,783 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 2 | 1:2,986,638 | 34,954 |
| Pakistan | - | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 2 | 1:27,430 | 2,159 |
| South Korea | - | 2 | 1:2,772,210 | 27,911 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Belarus | 100% | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Liberia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Zambia | - | 1 | 1:15,854,794 | 66,637 |
The alternate forms: Vérena (3), Veréna (3), Véréna (138) & Vérèna (6) are calculated separately.
Verena (427) may also be a surname.
Verena Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. a German name, probably a derivative of some name in varin (cf. Warner, Warren), occasionally borrowed and used in England in modern times.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
A rather uncommon f. name (as in that subtle novel, The Paradyne Case), not suggested by verbena and Veronica, but adopted from the German and, if from Teutonic, meaning ‘sacred wisdom’, or, if from Ger., ‘true picture.’
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Latin (feminine) - One who venerates God.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Teutonic name, meaning: Sacred wisdom.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Verena Forename Popularity
Verena Demographics
Verena Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 5 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Verena Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Verena in the Russian language | ||
| Верена | verena | - |
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