Fun Facts About the Name Verah
- 39 babies named Verah: U.S. records list 39 babies given the name Verah from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Verah Mean?
Verah is a spelling variant of Vera, a name with two separate established origins. In the Latin tradition it comes from vera, the feminine form of verus, meaning "true," so the name works as a plain word name. In the Russian tradition, Вера (Vera) means "faith" and serves as the Slavic equivalent of the Christian virtue Faith; it is related to Russian verit', "to believe," and to similar words in other Slavic languages. The Latin and Slavic words descend from the same Indo-European root for what is true or trustworthy, but they reached naming use by different routes: one as a Latin adjective, the other as a translated virtue name in Orthodox Christian usage. The final -h in Verah follows a familiar English pattern for names ending in an unstressed -a, as in Sarah, Hannah, and Leah, and does not change the meaning.
Verah Name History & Origins
Вера (Vera) has a long life in the Orthodox Slavic world as the Russian form of the virtue Faith, the first of the three daughters in the widely told story of the martyrs Faith, Hope, and Love, whose mother is Sophia. That story came into Slavic through Greek, where the daughters are named Pistis, Elpis, and Agape, so the Slavic name is a translation of a virtue rather than the survival of an older native name. Cognate forms are used in Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian.
In Western Europe, Vera was used as a Latin word name meaning "true." It passed into English use by the 19th century alongside other short Latin and virtue-style names, and the 20th-century English singer Vera Lynn (born Vera Margaret Welch) is a well-known bearer. The spelling Verah is a later English-language variant; English has a long habit of writing a final unstressed -a with an -h, as in Sarah, Hannah, and Deborah, and Verah follows that pattern as an alternative to the more familiar Vera.
How Popular is the Name Verah?
Verah has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2014. Its best rank was #14,474 in 2014.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #14,811 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #17,421 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2022 | #15,164 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #18,700 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #18,941 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #14,474 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #19,118 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Verah Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are fixed in your opinions, firm in your friendships and square in your dealings with others. You are an excellent worker. Since you are both possessive and emotional, you can be either very practical or very impractical and unpredictable. Your dual nature needs to become steadfast. You are the marrying kind. You have an eventful, exciting life. You are versatile and have the ability to learn easily.
You desire to inspire and lead, to control other's affairs. You are giving, courageous and bold, action oriented,energetic and strong willed. You want to make a difference in the world, and this attitude often attracts you to cultural interests, politics, social issues, and the cultivation of your creative talents.
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