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/).
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.
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.
Weronika's popularity over time
741 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #82 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
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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Lesser Poland992 girls born+24%
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Subcarpathian510 girls born+20%
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Podlaskie260 girls born+12%
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Łódź490 girls born+10%
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Lublin384 girls born+6%
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Masovian1,258 girls born+1%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian388 girls born0%
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Warmian-Masurian250 girls born−1%
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Silesian776 girls born−3%
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Lubusz167 girls born−5%
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Świętokrzyskie184 girls born−6%
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Lower Silesian515 girls born−7%
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Pomeranian449 girls born−14%
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Greater Poland649 girls born−15%
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West Pomeranian235 girls born−21%
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Opole121 girls born−26%
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).
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21
120,903Stanisława
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22
120,044Beata
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23118,474Weronika
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24
117,720Irena
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25
117,441Jolanta
When Weronika celebrates name day
Weronika appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 13 January.