Verona

Where Verona comes from

Borrowed from Italian Verona, from Latin Vērōna.
— Wiktionary's entry for Verona
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1906
    Peak, #423
    65 babies named Verona — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,267.
  4. 1968
    Verona Pooth born
    German beauty pageant winner, television personality, and entrepreneur
  5. 1985
    Verona van de Leur born
    Dutch former gymnast, adult movie performer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Verona Pooth · German beauty pageant winner, television personality, and entrepreneur, born 1968
  • Verona van de Leur · Dutch former gymnast, adult movie performer, born 1985
  • Verona Elder · British athlete, born 1953
  • Verona Murphy · Irish politician, born 1971
  • Verona Verbakel · Belgian actress, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.