Veronika
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 97 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,480since 1920
Veronika over time
Rank among girls' names. Veronika has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 |
| 2024 | #3,013 | 54 |
| 2023 | #3,140 | 52 |
| 2022 | #3,123 | 52 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 |
| 2019 | #2,482 | 71 |
| 2018 | #2,387 | 76 |
| 2017 | #2,530 | 70 |
| 2016 | #2,761 | 62 |
| 2015 | #2,012 | 98 |
| 2014 | #1,876 | 107 |
| 2013 | #1,866 | 108 |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 |
| 2011 | #2,103 | 91 |
| 2010 | #1,897 | 106 |
| 2009 | #2,165 | 92 |
| 2008 | #2,122 | 95 |
| 2007 | #1,804 | 118 |
| 2006 | #1,905 | 106 |
| 2005 | #1,933 | 99 |
| 2004 | #2,020 | 91 |
| 2003 | #1,858 | 99 |
| 2002 | #2,018 | 86 |
| 2001 | #1,807 | 98 |
| 2000 | #1,952 | 86 |
| 1999 | #1,940 | 81 |
| 1998 | #2,048 | 72 |
| 1997 | #1,624 | 97 |
| 1996 | #1,792 | 82 |
| 1995 | #1,982 | 69 |
| 1994 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 1993 | #2,068 | 66 |
| 1992 | #2,548 | 49 |
| 1991 | #2,420 | 52 |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 |
| 1989 | #2,304 | 51 |
| 1988 | #2,539 | 42 |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 |
| 1986 | #2,682 | 36 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 |
| 1982 | #3,093 | 28 |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 |
| 1977 | #3,267 | 23 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 |
| 1973 | #3,342 | 19 |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 |
| 1971 | #3,652 | 17 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 |
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| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
| 1965 | #3,149 | 16 |
| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
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| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Veronika! It came in at #4,975, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Veronika is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#828 · 1 in 4,791
- New York#1,009 · 1 in 6,318
- Michigan#1,110 · 1 in 7,124
- Illinois#1,483 · 1 in 10,540
- Florida#2,019 · 1 in 16,467
Best ever in a state: #518 in Connecticut, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #828 | 8 | 1 in 4,791 |
| New York | #1,009 | 15 | 1 in 6,318 |
| Michigan | #1,110 | 6 | 1 in 7,124 |
| Illinois | #1,483 | 6 | 1 in 10,540 |
| Florida | #2,019 | 5 | 1 in 16,467 |
| California | #2,862 | 7 | 1 in 31,184 |
| Texas | #3,201 | 5 | 1 in 33,334 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Veronika
- 504 spots since 2024 (#3,013 → #3,517)
- 296 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #3,517)
- 1,505 spots since 2015 (#2,012 → #3,517)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 1997 at #1,624 (97 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,248 girls born in 2013 were named Veronika (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,378 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,624 in 1997, was only 1 in 17,945 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.9% of all girls named Veronika (970) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 5 | #4,975 (1920) | #4,975 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 57 | #3,379 (1958) | #4,507 |
| 1960s | 113 | #2,752 (1961) | #3,905 |
| 1970s | 160 | #2,942 (1978) | #4,233 |
| 1980s | 316 | #2,304 (1989) | #3,040 |
| 1990s | 670 | #1,624 (1997) | #2,132 |
| 2000s | 970 | #1,804 (2007) | #1,958 |
| 2010s | 889 | #1,866 (2013) | #2,187 |
| 2020s | 300 | #3,013 (2024) | #3,195 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Veronika in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 19,969 of them was named Veronika, which outranked 89.3% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,148Saydee93
- #2,148Venus93
- #2,148Zariya93
- #2,165Veronika92
- #2,165Alona92
- #2,165Analee92
- #2,165Chesney92
- #2,183Breanne91
- #2,183Brooklin91
- #2,183Dereon91
Tied with 17 names at #2,165; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.