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Vera (given name)

Vera (: Véra, "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin. In Slavic languages, Vera means faith. The name Vera has been used in the English speaking world since the 19th century and was popular in the early 20th century. In Turkish Vera means piety. It is usually a feminine name. In the Russian language, Vera may also be a diminutive of the male first names Avenir and Averky.

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Diminutives: Verica (Serbian and Croatian), Verka or Vierka (Slovak), Verka, Verochka, Verunya, Verushka (Russian).

Other languages: Véra (French), Věra (Czech), Veera (Finnish), Wiera, Wiara (Polish), , Viera (Slovak), فيرا (Arabic)

Origin

In the Ancient Greek Christian faith, Saint Fides (Faith or Vera), her sisters Spes (Hope) and Caritas (Love) (saints Faith, Hope and Charity) and their mother Sophia (Wisdom), died as martyrs in the second century AD during the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire under the emperor Hadrian. The names are also the words designating the three key Christian virtues mentioned in Apostle Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 13:13). Thus the name Vera entered the Russian culture as part of the trio: Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov as a calque from Greek of the names of saints.

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  • Vera Albreht (1895–1971), Slovene poet, writer, publicist and translator
  • Vera Aleksandrova (1895–1966), Russian literary critic, historian, and editor
  • Vera Alentova (1942–2025), Soviet and Russian actress
  • Vera Allison (1902–1993), American Modernist jeweler, painter
  • Vera Altayskaya (1919–1978), Soviet actress
  • Vera Eugenia Andrus (1895–1979), American artist and printmaker
  • Vera Anisimova (born 1952), Soviet athlete
  • Vera Anstey (1889–1976), British economist
  • Vera Atkins (1908–2000), Romanian-born British intelligence officer during World War II

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  • Vera Elkan (1908–2008), South African photographer
  • Vera Etches (born 1975), Canadian physician
  • Vera Evison (1918–2018), British archaeologist and academic

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  • Vera Ilyina (born 1974), Russian diver
  • Vera Inber (1890–1972), Russian-Soviet poet and writer
  • Vera Int-Veen (born 1967), German journalist and television presenter
  • Vera Isaku (born 1955), Albanian journalist

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  • Vera Wang (born 1949), American fashion designer
  • Vera Weizmann (1881–1966), Russian-born Israeli medical doctor and a Zionist activist
  • Vera White (1893–1949), American silent film actress
  • Vera Williams (1927–2015), American children's writer and illustrator
  • Vera Woodhouse, Lady Terrington (1889–1973), British Liberal Party politician

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