Vera Girl
How popular is Vera?
#205 girl name in 2025
1,482 baby girls were named Vera in the US in 2025, making it the 205th most popular girl name.
Vera popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #205 for girls (▲ 21 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,482 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+41% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #310 in 2015, #246 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1918 (3,923 girls) |
| Highest rank | #65 in 1915 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Vera counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Vera family of names ranked #225 for girls in 2025 (#246 the year before), with 1,488 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Vera | 1,482 | 100% |
| Verah | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Vera is most popular
Babies named Vera per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Hampshire: 3.3 per 1,000 (61 girls)
- Vermont: 3.3 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- North Dakota: 3.0 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- Rhode Island: 2.5 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Maine: 2.5 per 1,000 (38 girls)
Vera by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,365 | #122 |
| 1890s | 6,377 | #69 |
| 1900s | 10,457 | #67 |
| 1910s | 28,289 | #65 |
| 1920s | 32,541 | #75 |
| 1930s | 18,023 | #104 |
| 1940s | 12,189 | #159 |
| 1950s | 11,041 | #227 |
| 1960s | 6,032 | #314 |
| 1970s | 2,258 | #524 |
| 1980s | 1,311 | #910 |
| 1990s | 869 | #1,516 |
| 2000s | 1,612 | #894 |
| 2010s | 9,052 | #253 |
| 2020s | 8,040 | #205 |
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Questions
- Is Vera a boy or girl name?
- Vera is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Vera were girls.
- How popular is the name Vera?
- 1,482 baby girls were named Vera in the US in 2025, making it the 205th most popular girl name.
- When was Vera most popular?
- Vera peaked in 1918, when 3,923 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #65, held for 2 years starting in 1915.
- How many people are named Vera?
- 149,854 babies have been named Vera in the US since 1880. We estimate about 50,922 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 62.
- Where is Vera most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Vera was most common in New Hampshire, at 3.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.