Vera (given name)

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Vera is a female first name of Slavic origin meaning faith, or of Latin origin meaning true. Its name day is on May 31.[1]

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Russian, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian, Dutch, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Spanish, Albanian

Other scripts: Вера (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian)

Pronounced: VYE-rah (Russian), VEER-ə (English), VER-ə (English)   [key]

Diminutives: Verochka, Verusha (Russian), Veer, Veerke (Dutch), Verica (Serbian and Croatian)

Other languages: Věra (Czech), Veera (Finnish), Wiera (Polish), Vira (Ukrainian), Viera (Slovak), Vjera (English)

Origin

In the Christian faith, saint Vera (Faith), her sisters Nadejda(Hope) and Liubov(Love) and their mother Sophia (Wisdom), died a martyr's death in the second century during the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire under the emperor Hadrian. In Albanian the meaning of the word "vera" is summer.

People

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  • Vera Elkan (1908–2008), South African photographer

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  • Véra Nabokov (1902–1991), wife, editor, and translator of Vladimir Nabokov
  • Vera Nazarian (born 1966), Russian-born American fantasy and science fiction writer
  • Vera Nazina (born 1931), Russian painter
  • Vera Nebolsina (born 1989), Russian chess player
  • Vera Neumann (born 1907), American fashion designer
  • Vera Nikolić (born 1948), Serbian track and field athlete
  • Vera Nikolic Podrinska (1886–1972), Croatian painter and baroness

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  • Vera Jayne Palmer (1933–1967), birth name of Jayne Mansfield, American actress
  • Vera Panova (1905–1973), Soviet novelist, playwright, and journalist
  • Vera Pauw (born 1963), Dutch football coach and former player
  • Vera Pavlova (born 1963), Russian poet
  • Vera Pearce (1895–1966), Australian stage and film actress
  • Vera Perlin (1902–1974), Canadian humanitarian
  • Vera Pezer (born 1939), Canadian curler and academic
  • Vera Pless (born 1931), American mathematician
  • Vera Popkova (1943–2011), Soviet track and field athlete
  • Vera Popova (1867–1896), Russian chemist
  • Vera Pospíšilová-Cechlová (born 1978), Czech athlete
  • Vera Putina (born 1926), Georgian woman who claims that Vladimir Putin is her lost son

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Fictional characters

  • Vera, a character on the Spanish children's television program Barrio Sésamo
  • Vera, a character from Tolstoy's novel War and Peace
  • Vera is the name given to a gun by Jayne Cobb in the television show Firefly
  • Vera Claythorne, character from Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None
  • Vera Dietz, the titular character of the young adult novel by A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
  • Vera Donovan, a character from Stephen King's novel Dolores Claiborne
  • Vera Douka, fictional character in the ANT1 television series Erotas
  • Vera Drake, title character of a 2004 British Mike Leigh film
  • Vera Duckworth, character from Coronation Street
  • Vera Louise Gorman-Novak, fictional character in the long-running television series Alice
  • Vera Juarez, character from the British television soap opera Torchwood: Miracle Day
  • Vera Möldersm, a character from Strike Witches
  • Vera Peterson, a character on the television show Cheers
  • Vera Stanhope, character in a series of detective novels by Ann Cleeves and the television series Vera based on these novels

See also

References

  1. ↑ www.mynameday.com
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