girls:
146.6k births since 1880
#269 (95th percentile)
boys:
397 births since 1897
#4189 (9th percentile)
overall:
147k births since 1880
#508 (93rd percentile)
The name Vera is the #508 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 147,002 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #269 (95.3% percentile) for all time with 146,605 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,189 (8.6% percentile) for all time with 397 births since 1897.
Vera has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1897 for boys).
The name Vera has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Vera reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 89.2% percentile (ranked #65) with 3,276 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 3,491 births per million (ranked 79.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Vera ranks #213 for girls (77.6% percentile) with 759 births per million, which is 21.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Vera reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #527) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 56 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1963.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vera".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Vera. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.4% confident that Vera is pronounced as VEH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VIH-ruh, at 27.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like V EH1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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