Vera
Vera is ranked 226th among girls in 2024 (1,351 births). Its best rank was 65th, in 1915, 1919.
- Rank in 2024
- #226down 3 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,3510.08% of girls
- Peak year
- 19183,923 births
- Best rank
- #65first in 1915
- Since 1880
- 147,970people given the name
The story in the numbers
147,970 girls have been named Vera in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 3,923 births — 0.34% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 365 → 226).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 120 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 39 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vera | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,365 | |
| 1890s | 6,377 | |
| 1900s | 10,457 | |
| 1910s | 28,289 | |
| 1920s | 32,542 | |
| 1930s | 18,022 | |
| 1940s | 12,189 | |
| 1950s | 11,041 | |
| 1960s | 6,031 | |
| 1970s | 2,259 | |
| 1980s | 1,311 | |
| 1990s | 869 | |
| 2000s | 1,612 | |
| 2010s | 9,052 | |
| 2020s | 6,554 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Vera was the 68th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Vera
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fernpeak 1918
- Rubiepeak 1921
- Beatricepeak 1921
- Irenepeak 1921
- Cleopeak 1920
- Faepeak 1916
- Alinepeak 1920
- Ruthpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.