Veronica
About 224,609 American babies have been named Veronica since 1880, most of them around 1980. In 2025 it ranked 427th. About 185,000 Veronicas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Veronica boys named Veronica
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 224,609
- Estimated living today
- 185,000
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1980
- Best rank
- 70th
- Rank in 2025
- 427th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 223,775 / 834
How old the living Veronicas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 224,609 babies given the name since 1880, about 185,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 25,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
From the Latin form of Berenice, from Ancient Greek Φερενίκη. Influenced by the Church Latin phrase vera icon ("true image") associated with the veil of Saint Veronica, who wiped the face of Jesus on the way to Calvary, resulting in an image of his face miraculously appearing on the veil.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Veronicas
- Veronica Guerin (1959–1996)Irish crime reporter
- Veronica Lake (1922–1973)American actress
- Veronica Roth (born 1988)American author
- Veronica Campbell-Brown (born 1982)Jamaican track and field sprint athlete
- Veronica Cartwright (born 1949)British actress
- Verónica Castro (born 1952)Mexican actress and singer
- Verónica Forqué (1955–2021)Spanish actress
- Verónica Boquete (born 1987)Spanish footballer
People named Veronica with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Veronica is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Veronica is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.4×), Arizona (1.9×), California (1.9×), Texas (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1980
The most popular girls’ names the year Veronica peaked:
Veronica elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Veronica | 21,035 | — |
| Norway girls | Veronica | 3,813 | 49th |
| Spain girls | Veronica | 2,018 | 51st |
| Ireland girls | Veronica | 1,967 | 52nd |
| England and Wales girls | Veronica | 1,473 | 452nd |
| France girls | Veronica +1 spelling | 1,120 | 851st |
| Poland girls | Veronica +1 spelling | 769 birth registrations | 141st |
| Scotland girls | Veronica | 417 | 159th |
| Switzerland girls | Veronica | 300 | 252nd |
| Belgium girls | Veronica | 75 | 1,147th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Veronica | 3 | 384th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Veronica: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Veronica | 163 | 0.013% | 229th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Veronica | 49 | 0.011% | 210th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Veronica | 87 | 0.133% | 24th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Veronica | 1 | 0.027% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Veronica is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.14% of children were given it – 87 of them.
Veronica: rank by region
In 2017, Veronica was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Veronica | 845 | 5 |
In 2024, Veronica was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Veronica | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Veronica was given 2 times or more in 6 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Łódzkie | Veronica | 188 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Veronica | 194 | 3 |
| Mazowieckie | Veronica | 326 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Veronica | 255 | 2 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Veronica | 131 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Veronica | 248 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Veronica by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Veronica among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Veronica | 3,775 | 7,768 |
| Finland girls | Veronica | 577 | 1,625 |
| the Netherlands boys | Veronica | — | 124 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Veronica lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 72,422 women called Veronica were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asturias | Veronica | 2,358 | 4.444 | 43 |
| Cantabria | Veronica | 1,293 | 4.223 | 50 |
| Zamora | Veronica | 342 | 4.092 | 46 |
| Valladolid | Veronica | 1,097 | 4.044 | 51 |
| León | Veronica | 922 | 4.010 | 56 |
| Albacete | Veronica | 776 | 3.987 | 55 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Veronica against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.