Entry № 11239 · Slavic origin

Vesna Vesna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VES-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Spring, messenger"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Slavic)

A name that means "spring, messenger".

Vesna is the Slavic goddess of spring and the dawn of the year. The name means "spring" or "messenger" in most Slavic languages — bearing the word for the season as a personal name.

Vesna is widely used in the former Yugoslavia and Slovenia. In the U.S. it remains rare but distinctive.

Spring. The Slavic goddess of the season.

The name in its native script.

Vesna
Transliteration
Vesna
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɛs.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vesna stands.

Vesna 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.

Vesnas before her.

Real people
Vesna Vulović
Serbian flight attendant, holds the longest survival fall record.
1950 – 2016
In fiction
Vesna
Slavic goddess of spring.
Slavic mythology

Names connected to Vesna.

The number behind Vesna.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vesna reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.