Vera

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Faroese
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Russian вера (vyera) = 'faith' ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

2) Latin verus = 'true' ^{[1] [2] [3]}

3) Short form of Veronica ^{[1] [4]}

4) Short form of Verena ^[4]

Related Names

Veera	♀
Veerukka	♀
Veeruska	♀
Vepa	♀
Vera	♀
Verá	♀
Wera	♀

Name Days

Norway

4 February

Finland (Swedish Language)

4 August

Sweden

30 May

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Vera
Accusative:	Veru
Dative:	Veru
Genitive:	Veru

- Faroese
Nominative:	Vera
Accusative:	Veru
Dative:	Veru
Genitive:	Veru

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Finland: 1847 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[7]		7110	11189	1	2
Denmark[8]		3413	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[9]		1188	2070	0	0
Finland[10]		n.a.	3664	n.a	2
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^{[7][8][9][10]}:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[9]:

Sources: ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
5. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
6. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi