Entry № 11240 · Latin origin

Vesper Vesper — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VES-per /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Evening, evening star"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "evening, evening star".

Vesper comes from the Latin vesper, meaning "evening" or "evening star" — the planet Venus when it appears at dusk. Catholic vespers are the evening prayers.

Rising slowly as a girls' name.

Evening. Bond's first love.

The name in its native script.

Vesper
Transliteration
Vesper
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɛs.pər /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Vesper stands.

Vesper 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.

Vespers before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Vesper Lynd
Bond girl in Casino Royale.
1953 novel

Names connected to Vesper.

The number behind Vesper.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vesper reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.