Meaning not yet researched.
Veronica: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 730 in 2025. Its best rank was #68 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #68 in 1983; #427 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Veronica in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#427 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #68.
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Veronica: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 730 girls in 2025. Peak: #68 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 4,378 (1980).
In 2025, 730 US girls were named Veronica, making it the 427th most common girls’ name of the year, down 35 places from #392 in 2024. That is 75 fewer than the 805 girls named Veronica in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #68, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,378, in 1980. For comparison, it was #368 in 2015 and #197 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Veronica in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 14 babies with the name. In all, 224,609 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 39,545 babies named Veronica.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,997 US girls were named Veronica; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 887. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Veronica ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #249 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Veronika (3,480 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Veronique, Weronika and Veronnica are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Franky, Frony, Ron, Ronie, Ronna and Ronnie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian, Romanian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Veronique (1,460), Weronika (298), Veronnica (59), Verronica (12), Veronyca (6), Veronicka (5), Vironica (5), Verinica (5).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 23 | #249 | #277 |
| Montana | 5 | #258 | — |
| Kansas | 12 | #284 | #456 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #295 | #250 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #309 | #570 |
| Virginia | 26 | #324 | #340 |
| Indiana | 22 | #331 | #505 |
| Ohio | 34 | #334 | #335 |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #348 | #306 |
| Idaho | 7 | #349 | — |
| New Jersey | 23 | #361 | #241 |
| Michigan | 25 | #362 | #320 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #371 | #510 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #387 | — |
| Oregon | 10 | #392 | #380 |
| Texas | 85 | #396 | #401 |
| Colorado | 15 | #405 | #440 |
| Washington | 18 | #410 | #432 |
| Missouri | 15 | #417 | #376 |
| Florida | 45 | #425 | #301 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #426 | #476 |
| Arizona | 15 | #474 | #488 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #477 | #409 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #478 | #243 |
| Illinois | 22 | #483 | #280 |
| California | 68 | #497 | #391 |
| Maryland | 10 | #546 | #334 |
| Alabama | 9 | #571 | #684 |
| New York | 28 | #609 | #291 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #644 | #381 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #650 | #859 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #657 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #675 | #466 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #691 | #323 |
| Utah | 6 | #700 | #711 |
| Georgia | 14 | #746 | #686 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 730 | #427 | — | — |
| 2024 | 805 | #392 | — | — |
| 2023 | 744 | #412 | — | — |
| 2022 | 774 | #407 | — | — |
| 2021 | 734 | #431 | — | — |
| 2020 | 808 | #386 | — | — |
| 2019 | 883 | #358 | — | — |
| 2018 | 887 | #357 | — | — |
| 2017 | 820 | #380 | — | — |
| 2016 | 812 | #410 | — | — |
| 2015 | 893 | #368 | — | — |
| 2014 | 873 | #373 | — | — |
| 2013 | 965 | #334 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,025 | #316 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,114 | #284 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,106 | #295 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,171 | #279 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,330 | #260 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,482 | #241 | 7 | #10,847 |
| 2006 | 1,626 | #211 | 5 | #13,918 |
| 2005 | 1,684 | #206 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,769 | #193 | 6 | #11,281 |
| 2003 | 1,835 | #177 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,911 | #172 | 5 | #12,406 |
| 2001 | 2,088 | #154 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,356 | #143 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,831 | #115 | 5 | #11,538 |
| 1998 | 2,632 | #126 | 5 | #11,247 |
| 1997 | 2,544 | #126 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,745 | #114 | 5 | #10,469 |
| 1995 | 2,599 | #121 | 10 | #5,908 |
| 1994 | 2,941 | #110 | 10 | #5,846 |
| 1993 | 3,095 | #103 | 13 | #4,683 |
| 1992 | 3,444 | #95 | 12 | #4,851 |
| 1991 | 3,441 | #100 | 27 | #2,602 |
| 1990 | 3,588 | #96 | 16 | #3,767 |
| 1989 | 3,712 | #85 | 48 | #1,656 |
| 1988 | 3,525 | #83 | 20 | #2,856 |
| 1987 | 3,616 | #80 | 14 | #3,513 |
| 1986 | 3,580 | #77 | 40 | #1,644 |
| 1985 | 3,875 | #72 | 44 | #1,523 |
| 1984 | 4,013 | #70 | 34 | #1,717 |
| 1983 | 4,069 | #68 | 26 | #2,081 |
| 1982 | 4,150 | #69 | 28 | #1,995 |
| 1981 | 4,313 | #68 | 31 | #1,864 |
| 1980 | 4,378 | #70 | 29 | #1,963 |
| 1979 | 4,062 | #76 | 36 | #1,627 |
| 1978 | 3,933 | #73 | 27 | #1,910 |
| 1977 | 3,853 | #73 | 29 | #1,820 |
| 1976 | 4,022 | #68 | 24 | #2,050 |
| 1975 | 4,060 | #72 | 35 | #1,528 |
| 1974 | 4,226 | #71 | 20 | #2,194 |
| 1973 | 4,152 | #71 | 26 | #1,778 |
| 1972 | 3,563 | #82 | 16 | #2,414 |
| 1971 | 3,427 | #110 | 15 | #2,551 |
| 1970 | 3,489 | #110 | 21 | #1,985 |
| 1969 | 3,451 | #108 | 10 | #3,053 |
| 1968 | 3,012 | #112 | 9 | #3,099 |
| 1967 | 3,179 | #108 | 7 | #3,541 |
| 1966 | 3,093 | #113 | 16 | #2,038 |
| 1965 | 3,074 | #125 | 7 | #3,524 |
| 1964 | 3,061 | #133 | 13 | #2,404 |
| 1963 | 3,014 | #139 | 10 | #2,842 |
| 1962 | 2,994 | #144 | 8 | #3,293 |
| 1961 | 2,729 | #154 | 9 | #3,084 |
| 1960 | 2,428 | #168 | 7 | #3,650 |
| 1959 | 2,293 | #167 | 8 | #3,279 |
| 1958 | 2,169 | #173 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,941 | #185 | 5 | #4,524 |
| 1956 | 1,816 | #190 | 9 | #2,960 |
| 1955 | 1,716 | #194 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,641 | #191 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,614 | #191 | 5 | #4,309 |
| 1952 | 1,572 | #188 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,473 | #195 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,387 | #197 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,424 | #192 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,478 | #186 | 5 | #4,176 |
| 1947 | 1,353 | #198 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,206 | #201 | — | — |
| 1945 | 1,034 | #195 | — | — |
| 1944 | 1,137 | #188 | — | — |
| 1943 | 1,239 | #182 | — | — |
| 1942 | 1,254 | #178 | 7 | #3,200 |
| 1941 | 837 | #210 | — | — |
| 1940 | 566 | #263 | — | — |
| 1939 | 512 | #274 | — | — |
| 1938 | 542 | #271 | — | — |
| 1937 | 534 | #270 | — | — |
| 1936 | 418 | #299 | — | — |
| 1935 | 458 | #285 | — | — |
| 1934 | 453 | #287 | — | — |
| 1933 | 448 | #285 | — | — |
| 1932 | 563 | #263 | — | — |
| 1931 | 578 | #252 | — | — |
| 1930 | 638 | #245 | — | — |
| 1929 | 603 | #261 | — | — |
| 1928 | 695 | #237 | — | — |
| 1927 | 777 | #231 | — | — |
| 1926 | 782 | #226 | — | — |
| 1925 | 826 | #225 | — | — |
| 1924 | 954 | #206 | — | — |
| 1923 | 945 | #208 | — | — |
| 1922 | 1,028 | #196 | — | — |
| 1921 | 1,074 | #194 | — | — |
| 1920 | 1,039 | #192 | — | — |
| 1919 | 1,047 | #187 | — | — |
| 1918 | 1,117 | #182 | 5 | #4,773 |
| 1917 | 1,038 | #183 | — | — |
| 1916 | 976 | #186 | 5 | #4,496 |
| 1915 | 914 | #185 | — | — |
| 1914 | 767 | #176 | — | — |
| 1913 | 615 | #183 | — | — |
| 1912 | 552 | #178 | — | — |
| 1911 | 353 | #204 | — | — |
| 1910 | 314 | #207 | — | — |
| 1909 | 270 | #213 | — | — |
| 1908 | 286 | #195 | — | — |
| 1907 | 257 | #203 | — | — |
| 1906 | 216 | #210 | — | — |
| 1905 | 217 | #209 | — | — |
| 1904 | 203 | #213 | — | — |
| 1903 | 175 | #227 | — | — |
| 1902 | 217 | #199 | — | — |
| 1901 | 199 | #201 | — | — |
| 1900 | 218 | #213 | — | — |
| 1899 | 182 | #204 | — | — |
| 1898 | 216 | #200 | — | — |
| 1897 | 155 | #219 | — | — |
| 1896 | 145 | #230 | — | — |
| 1895 | 153 | #222 | — | — |
| 1894 | 113 | #258 | — | — |
| 1893 | 102 | #267 | — | — |
| 1892 | 112 | #251 | — | — |
| 1891 | 85 | #266 | — | — |
| 1890 | 82 | #278 | — | — |
| 1889 | 60 | #318 | — | — |
| 1888 | 59 | #313 | — | — |
| 1887 | 35 | #366 | — | — |
| 1886 | 26 | #430 | — | — |
| 1885 | 34 | #347 | — | — |
| 1884 | 28 | #384 | — | — |
| 1883 | 29 | #335 | — | — |
| 1882 | 24 | #370 | — | — |
| 1881 | 15 | #446 | — | — |
| 1880 | 14 | #465 | — | — |
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).