Wiera
A Slavic name built on *wiara*, "faith". Fewer than 1,500 women in Poland carry it and only two girls were named Wiera last year, so meeting one stays memorable.
Wiera Pronunciation
Wiera is pronounced VYE-rah (/ˈvjɛra/).
What Wiera means
Where Wiera comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wiera grows from a Slavic root, věra, the everyday word for faith. Polish keeps that word as wiara, and the name stands right beside it, near enough that a Polish ear catches the meaning without effort. The same root produced Russian Vera and the older Slavic term for belief and trust.
Faith began as a plain noun before it ever settled onto a person. A woman called Wiera carried an entire idea as her label, and the abstract sense stayed readable under the name for centuries. The meaning never hides.
Read down an old school register and Wiera announces itself, rarer now than in past decades, still clear in what it says. Whoever bore it answered to the Polish wiara, faith itself.
How many people are named Wiera
1 in 16254 women in Poland is named Wiera. 1,387 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #829 among female names.
Wiera's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1880 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024. Still the #829 name among living women, even as it slips to #1880 among newborns.
Where Wiera is most popular
Wiera is most popular in Podlaskie, 721% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+267%) and Lesser Poland (+138%).
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Podlaskie2 girls born+721%
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Pomeranian2 girls born+267%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+138%
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Masovian2 girls born+52%
Wiera as a middle name
Wiera is a first name for 1,387 women in Poland and a middle name for another 142, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 548th, between Nathalie (142) and Chloe (141).
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#546 Margarete142
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#547 Nathalie142
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#548 Wiera142
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#549 Chloe141
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#550 Raquel141