Given name
Vesna
“spring”
Vesna is a feminine given name from Russian, ultimately from Serbo-Croatian. It is used in English, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Vesna goes back to Old Church Slavonic вєсна, meaning “spring.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Slavic.
How it developed
From Russian Весна, from Ukrainian Весна, from Serbo-Croatian Ве̏сна.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
In mythological stories, Vesna is associated with the goddess of spring.
Vesna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 248
- 0 boys · 248 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,682 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Vesna’s family of names
In English usage, Vesna shares an earlier linguistic root with Vasant. Vesna has a related form in Vesnaa. Vesna has a related form in Vesnah.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Vesna has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
4 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Vesna
- Vesna VulovićSerbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute1950–2016
- Vesna PusićCroatian politicianborn 1953
- Vesna ParunCroatian poet and translator (1922–2010)
- Vesna PisarovićCroatian pop singerborn 1978
- Vesna FabjanSlovenian cross-country skierborn 1985
- Vesna DoloncRussian tennis playerborn 1989
- Vesna KrmpotićTiyatro Sanatçısı (2005)1932–2018
- Vesna TeršeličCroatian activistborn 1962
- Vesna ZmijanacMontenegrine-Serbian folk singerborn 1957
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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