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Weronika

From Greek, meaning "true image". Around 150,000 Polish women carry it and it still sits inside the top 100, though fewer parents reach for it each year.

Weronika Pronunciation

Weronika is pronounced ve-ro-NYEE-kah (/vɛrɔˈɲika/).

Alive in 2025
151,528
Newborns 2025
741
National rank
#95
Next name day
13 January
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What Weronika means

Where Weronika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Weronika came into Polish from Greek, where the older form Berenike joined pherein, to bring, with nike, victory. So the name once pointed to a girl who brings victory. The diminutive Nika still holds that older sense, since it is the Greek word for victory itself.

The meaning most Poles attach today, "true image", prawdziwy obraz, arrived later. It grew from the legend of Saint Veronica, who wiped Christ's face and kept the imprint on her cloth. The Latin phrase vera icon, true image, was read back into the Greek name, and it stayed.

In Poland the name shortens easily. Wera serves close friends. Nika suits a small child, and the variant Weranika appears in eastern spellings. Weronika keeps her imieniny on 12 July, when a school register might list two of them in one class. The shortest form, Nika, means only one thing in Greek: victory.

When Weronika celebrates name day

Weronika appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, 4 of them as a main name, the first on 13 January.

Next name day
13 January
Wednesday in 2027
Next one in 125 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Weronika

1 in 149 women in Poland is named Weronika. 151,528 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #95 among female names.

People with the name Weronika 2019 → 2025
151,528 +2,655 since 2019
2020 149,323 +450
2021 149,848 +525
2022 150,185 +337
2023 150,995 +810
2024 151,315 +320
2025 151,528 +213

Weronika's popularity over time

741 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #82 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.

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741 newborns with the name Weronika in 2025
national rank #82 that year

Where Weronika is most popular

Weronika is most popular in Lesser Poland, 24% above the national average (992 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+20%) and Podlaskie (+12%). It is least common in Opole and West Pomeranian, 26% and 21% below average respectively.

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Weronika as a middle name

Weronika is a first name for 151,528 women in Poland and a middle name for another 118,474, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 23rd, between Beata (120,044) and Irena (117,720).

As a first name
151,528
As a middle name
118,474
first name 56% middle name 44%
Middle-name ranking women

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