Veronika
Veronika was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,570 among girls’ names; 3,480 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,400 Americans named Veronika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Veronika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Veronika mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Veronika is “a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Veronica”
From Late Latin Veronica.
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Veronika?
#3,570 among girls’ names, 2025
Veronika fell from #2,023 in 2015 to #3,570 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 54.9 to 26.8 per million.
118 babies in 2007, the peak
Veronika peaked in 2007, when 118 girls were given it, #1,814 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,570 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,045 | 33.3 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,178 | 32.4 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,162 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,209 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,278 | 29.7 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,506 | 42.3 |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,403 | 44.7 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,544 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,796 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 98 | #2,023 | 54.9 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,891 | 59.9 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,878 | 61.5 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,972 | 56.8 |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,122 | 51.7 |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,912 | 59.6 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,182 | 50.1 |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,136 | 50.2 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,814 | 61.4 |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,917 | 55.8 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,948 | 53.6 |
| 2004 | 91 | #2,026 | 49.6 |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,872 | 54.2 |
| 2002 | 86 | #2,024 | 47.9 |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,814 | 54.4 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,964 | 47.4 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,957 | 45.7 |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,061 | 40.7 |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,635 | 55.7 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,803 | 46.8 |
| 1995 | 69 | #2,000 | 39.2 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,314 | 31.9 |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,084 | 36.5 |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,569 | 26.6 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,442 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,634 | 23.7 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,332 | 27.7 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,589 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,718 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,718 | 21.0 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,616 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,137 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,336 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,167 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,247 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,321 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,174 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 27 | #3,006 | 17.6 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,364 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 10 | #6,034 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,972 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,858 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,478 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,787 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,784 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,242 | 8.0 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,215 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,969 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,851 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,258 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,688 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,328 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,523 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,834 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,677 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #5,016 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,537 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,061 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,298 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,178 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,644 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,786 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,713 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Veronika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Veronika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Veronika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Veronika, and how old are they?
3,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,480 Americans ever recorded as Veronika. The median Veronika alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 6,350 people named Veronika (6,337 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,132 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 103 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 209 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 886 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Veronika born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,647 | 1.1× |
Where Veronika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Veronika is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1920 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Veronika with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 228,652 babies since 1880, Veronika is the second most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 773 babies (5.6%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Veronika
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Veronika and names like it
- Compare Veronika and VeronicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sVeronika peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Veronika since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Veronika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Veronika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Veronika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.