Veronica
Meaning of Veronica
Veronica—pronounced vuh-RAHN-i-kuh—sweeps in like a heroine with wind in her hair, carrying more backstory than a best-selling novel. She began life as the Greek name Berenice, “she who brings victory,” then Latin and medieval storytellers gave her a clever costume change, hearing “vera icon,” or “true image,” in the legend of Saint Veronica’s veil. The result is a double-layered meaning: triumph on one side, truth on the other, a coin that always lands lucky-side up. Fast-forward through the centuries and she pops up everywhere—glamour-puss Veronica Lake lighting up old Hollywood, comic-book queen Veronica Lodge trading quips in Riverdale, and quick-witted teen sleuth Veronica Mars solving mysteries between classes. In the U.S. baby-name charts she sprinted into the Top 100 during the neon ’80s, slowed to a stylish jog around #351 today, and still winks at parents who want a name that feels vintage, victorious, and just a little bit cinematic.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as vuh-RAHN-i-kuh (/vəˈrɑnɪkə/)
British English
- Pronunced as vuh-RAHN-i-kuh (/vəˈrɒnɪkə/)
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Notable People Named Veronica
| Veronica Lake, born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman, was a 1940s American star famed for her peekaboo hairstyle and noir roles with Alan Ladd, whose career faded amid alcoholism and failed later comebacks. |
| Veronica Roth is an American novelist best known for the Divergent trilogy, which has sold over 35 million copies worldwide. |
| Veronica Escobar is a Democratic US representative for Texas 16th congressional district from El Paso since 2019 and previously served as an El Paso County commissioner and county judge. |
| Veronica Cartwright is an American actress known for science fiction and horror roles, a three time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, and the elder sister of actress Angela Cartwright. |
| Veronica Webb is an American model, actress, writer, and TV personality, the first African American with a major cosmetics contract, who appeared on Vogue, Essence, and Elle covers and walked for Victorias Secret and Chanel. |
| Veronica Lario is a former Italian actress and ex wife of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. |
| Veronica is an American singer and stage actress known as a 1990s club music diva alongside Ultra Nate and Deborah Cox. |
| Veronica Forrest-Thomson - Veronica Elizabeth Marian Forrest-Thomson was a Scottish poet and critical theorist whose 1978 study Poetic Artifice was reissued in 2016. |
| Veronica Micle was an Austrian Empire born Romanian Romantic poet best known for her love affair with the renowned Romanian writer Mihai Eminescu. |
| Veronica Alvarez is an American baseball catcher who won gold with the United States women's national baseball team at the 2015 Pan American Games. |
| Veronica Rocky Cooper was an American debutante and actress, appearing as Sandra Shaw in The Gay Nighties and other films, and the wife of Gary Cooper and mother of painter Maria Cooper Janis. |
| Veronica Maclean - Veronica, Lady Maclean was a Scottish food writer and hotelier whose family owned Creggans Inn on Loch Fyne in Argyll, and whose first book championed family and country house cooking over the French haute cuisine of the 1960s. |
| Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone, was a British Liberal Democrat peer known for her work on child welfare, special education, and prison reform. |
| Veronica Buckley is a New Zealand born writer and biographer who studied at the University of Canterbury and the University of London, and earlier worked as a musician and IT technical writer. |
| Veronica De Laurentiis is an Italian American author and former actress, daughter of Silvana Mangano and Dino De Laurentiis, who made her film debut at 18 in Waterloo and left acting after the 1970 birth of her daughter Giada. |
