Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Weronika comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Berenice, from Ancient Greek Βερενίκη.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Weronika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 298
- 0 boys · 298 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 24 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 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 24 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 651 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.
Weronika’s family of names
In Polish usage, Weronika has a diminutive in Weronka. In Polish usage, Weronika has a conventional equivalent in the English form Veronica. In Polish usage, Weronika has a conventional equivalent in the Latvian form Veronika.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Weronika has relatives in 21 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Weronika comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
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 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Weronika
- Weronika RosatiPolish actress and modelborn 1984
- Weronika NowakowskaPolish biathleteborn 1986
- Wiera GranPolish singer (1916–2007)
- Weronika Książkiewiczactressborn 1981
- Weronika FalkowskaPolish tennis playerborn 2000
- Weronika WedlerPolish sprinterborn 1989
- Weronika ZawistowskaPolish footballerborn 1999
- Weronika DereszPolish rowerborn 1985
- Weronika MarczukPolish actressborn 1971
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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