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Veronika

#3,570 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Veronica

Veronika has been given to 3,480 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #3,570 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Veronika, 2025

1 in 77,100

Veronika over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Veronika: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Veronica

Latin

What Veronika means

Veronika is a form of Veronica.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Veronika → Veronica. The family’s meaning is “true image”, recorded in English with the source elements icon.

Origin, language, and formation

Veronika is used in Albanian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, German, Indonesian, Latvian and Lithuanian and additional language sections. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Veronica.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Veronika is pronounced [ˈvɛronɪka].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,480 girls were recorded with the name Veronika between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,635 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,278 in 2020 to #3,570 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,023 in 2015 to #3,570 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Veronika?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,570
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Veronika sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Veronika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Veronikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Veronika was born before 2004 — so the typical Veronika is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,475
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (970).

Is Veronika rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−525
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−292
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,547
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.4%
Peak was 2007 (118)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,635
1997

Spellings of Veronika

Veronika is not the most common spelling — Veronica is, with 93.9% against Veronika's 1.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Veronika is used

Across 2016–2025, Veronika was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 32,215 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 12,500
  2. 2New York1 in 14,286
  3. 3Florida1 in 16,667
  4. 4Washington1 in 16,667
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 25,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Veronika around the world

Where Veronika ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2005–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1924–2025
    #2,993
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #424
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Veronika

People whose public names include Veronika, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Veronika in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Veronika. Linked forms have their own page here.

VeronicaVeroniqueVéronicVeranikaVerónicaVerônicaVéronique

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Veronika by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,570
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 292
Best rank ever
#1,635
1997
Peak year
2007
118 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,480
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Veronika

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

VereniceVernettaAngelikaVeroniqueVeronaVerenaVerityVernitaMalaikaVernetteVernelleVerdellJessikaVerleneVernessaVernellVerniceVernieVerlindaVergieVerdieZuleikaVersieVernika

Names with a curve like Veronika

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Veronika, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AllanaJanaiTalyaRianJennahKeeganAleksandraDashaMaleaAnjaJessalynJosey

Sibling names for Veronika

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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