Vera

Etymology 1
Borrowed in the nineteenth century from the virtue name. By folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin.

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1953 Eric Linklater, The House of Gair, J.Cape, page 214:
 * I killed Vera Cross - - - .I had known her for about three months, and never ceased to wonder if her parents, when they gave her a name, had been totally illiterate or wilfully blasphemous.
 * 1) * 1953 Eric Linklater, The House of Gair, J.Cape, page 214:
 * I killed Vera Cross - - - .I had known her for about three months, and never ceased to wonder if her parents, when they gave her a name, had been totally illiterate or wilfully blasphemous.

Usage notes

 * Popular in the Anglo-Saxon world in the 1910s and the 1920s, particularly in England.

Translations

 * Arabic: فِيرَا, فِيرَا
 * Belarusian: Ве́ра
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 薇拉
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Vera
 * Faroese: Vera
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ingrian: Veera
 * Japanese: ヴェラ
 * Latvian: Vera
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, Vjera
 * Slovak: Viera
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: Ві́ра, Ве́ра, Вє́ра

Etymology 2
From.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Vera is the 1031st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 33,674 individuals. Vera is most common among Hispanic/Latino (91.02%) individuals.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Usage notes
Matronymics
 * son of Vera: Veruson
 * daughter of Vera: Verudóttir

Etymology
From at the end of the 19th century.

Usage notes

 * Also used as a diminutive of and.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1876. From.

Etymology
From in the 1880s.

Etymology
Borrowed from in the 19th century.

Etymology
, from.