Verena is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Verona, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Verena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #869 in 1890.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #869 in 1890; #3,771 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Verena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,771 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1890, at #869.
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Verena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #869 in 1890 · most girls in one year: 43 (1916).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Verena, making it the 3,771st most common girls’ name of the year, up 433 places from #4,204 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 35 girls named Verena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #869, reached in 1890. The most girls given the name in a single year was 43, in 1916. For comparison, it was #5,819 in 2015 and #2,900 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Verena in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 11 babies. In all, 1,989 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 264 babies named Verena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 298 US girls were named Verena; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Verona (4,314 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, German and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Verena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,204 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,241 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,826 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,640 | — | — |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,773 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,689 | — | — |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,889 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,819 | — | — |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,444 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,547 | — | — |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,098 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,321 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,863 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,044 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,443 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,717 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,343 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,787 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,002 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,567 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,144 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,725 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,791 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,451 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,380 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,828 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,760 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,537 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,559 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,720 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,966 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,217 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #8,018 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,822 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,787 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,182 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,278 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,386 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,271 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,133 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,536 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,299 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,931 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,877 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,197 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,466 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,731 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,063 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,786 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,118 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,242 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,411 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,767 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,850 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,944 | — | — |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,994 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,264 | — | — |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,775 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,167 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,289 | — | — |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,536 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,350 | — | — |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,147 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1952 | 14 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,966 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,198 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #4,034 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,475 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,133 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1917 | 34 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1898 | 14 | #959 | — | — |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1895 | 12 | #981 | — | — |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1890 | 11 | #869 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).