Entry № 11235 · Czech origin

Veronika Veronika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ veh-ROH-nih-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Czech
Meaning
"True image (Czech Veronica)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Czech)

A name that means "true image (czech veronica)".

Veronika is the Czech and Slavic form of Veronica — from the Latin vera icona, meaning "true image." Saint Veronica is the legendary woman who wiped Jesus's face with her veil on the way to Calvary.

Veronika is widely used in the Czech Republic, Russia, and Eastern Europe.

True image. The Czech Saint Veronica.

The name in its native script.

Veronika
Transliteration
Veronika
Pronunciation
/ vəˈroʊ.nɪ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Veronika is built from.

Veronika is a compound name. Its parts are níkē — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

níkē
Greek
“victory”

Where Veronika stands.

Veronika does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Veronikas before her.

Real people
Veronika Decides to Die
Heroine of Paulo Coelho novel.
Veronika Vítková
Czech Olympic biathlete.
born 1988
In fiction
Veronika
Common in Slavic fiction.

Names connected to Veronika.

The number behind Veronika.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Veronika reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.