Vera
Meaning of Vera
Vera is one of those quietly confident names that carries its own sunshine wherever it goes. Rooted in the Russian word for “faith” and echoed by the Latin verus, meaning “true,” it offers a double dose of sincerity—think heart-on-sleeve honesty with a dash of old-world elegance. In English, it’s breezily said VEER-uh, while Russian speakers add a soft “yeh” for VYEH-ruh, and either way feels as effortless as a summer dress. The name bloomed in the Jazz Age—picture pearl strands and swing bands—then napped for a few decades before resurfacing with fresh energy, climbing back into today’s Top 250 and rising. Modern associations range from couture icon Vera Wang to the plucky heroine of vintage mysteries, giving the name both runway sparkle and storybook charm. Short, strong, and spelled the same in every language, Vera is a trusty little passport to “truth” and “faith,” ready to fit on a tiny hospital bracelet and, one day, a corner-office nameplate—with plenty of adventures in between.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as VEER-uh (/ˈvɪrə/)
Russian
- Pronunced as VYEH-ruh (/ˈvʲeɾə/)
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Notable People Named Vera
| Vera Farmiga is an American actress who rose from a 1996 Broadway debut in Taking Sides to a breakout in Down to the Bone, acclaimed roles in The Manchurian Candidate and The Departed, and scream queen turns in Joshua and Orphan. |
| Dame Vera Lynn was an English singer beloved in World War II as the Forces Sweetheart, famed for concerts for troops in Egypt India and Burma and for songs like The White Cliffs of Dover and A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. |
| Vera Louise Caspary was an American author who wrote novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. |
| Vera Rubin was an American astronomer whose galaxy rotation research yielded the first widely accepted evidence for dark matter. |
| Vera Ellen Wang is an American fashion designer who shifted from figure skating to fashion, worked at Vogue and Ralph Lauren, and opened her bridal gown boutique in 1990. |
| Vera Brittain was an English VAD nurse, writer, and activist whose 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her World War One experiences and her turn to pacifism. |
| American retired actress Vera Miles is best known for John Ford Westerns The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and for playing Lila Crane in Psycho and Psycho II. |
| Vera Zasulich was a Russian Menshevik writer and revolutionary whose 1878 attempt to assassinate Governor Fyodor Trepov in protest of prisoner abuse ended with a jury acquittal. |
| Vera Fyodorovna Panova was a Soviet Russian novelist and playwright who won the Stalin Prize in 1947, 1948, and 1950. |
| Vera Stanley Alder - Vera Dorothea Stanley Alder was an English portrait painter and mystic who wrote books on self help and spirituality and founded the World Guardian Fellowship. |
| Vera Rózsa - Vera Rozsa OBE was a Hungarian singer, voice teacher, and vocal consultant who lived in the United Kingdom from 1954. |
| Vera Molnár - Hungarian media artist Vera Molnar lived in Paris, pioneered generative computer art as one of the first women to use computers in fine art, and in the 1960s founded two French groups linking art and technology. |
| Vera Fedorovna Gaze was a Russian astronomer who studied emission nebulae and minor planets, discovered about 150 nebulae, and is commemorated by minor planet 2388 Gaze and the Gaze Crater on Venus. |
| Vera Komarkova was a Czech-American mountaineer and botanist who pioneered women's climbing and was the first woman to summit Annapurna and Cho Oyu. |
