Verónica
Barely 70 women in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick with you. It's the Spanish spelling of the name Poland knows as Weronika, from a Greek root meaning "bringing victory".
Verónica Pronunciation
Verónica is pronounced ve-roo-NYEE-tsah (/vɛruˈɲit͡sa/).
What Verónica means
Where Verónica comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Verónica is the Spanish shape of a name with Greek roots. It goes back to Berenike, formed from pherein, to bring, and nike, victory. So the oldest meaning is bringing victory. The accent on that ó marks the name as Spanish, and Spanish speakers have carried it for centuries.
The "true image" sense arrived later. Medieval Latin readers heard vera icon, true image, inside the name, and linked it to Saint Veronica, who wiped Christ's face on the road to Calvary. That reading is a folk etymology, not the real source. It stuck all the same. Today the two meanings travel together, victory underneath and true image on top.
Polish keeps its own form. Open a school class register and a Weronika can sit a few rows from a Verónica, both meaning niosąca zwycięstwo. The names look distant. The root is one.
Choose Verónica and you choose the Greek victory first, the Latin true image second.
How many people are named Verónica
1 in 317519 women in Poland is named Verónica. 71 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4286 among female names.
Verónica's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Verónica as a middle name
Verónica is a first name for 71 women in Poland and a middle name for another 55, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 927th, between Rajmunda (55) and Fatma (54).
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#925 Luz55
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#926 Rajmunda55
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#927 Verónica55
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#928 Fatma54
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#929 Justine54