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
Grammatical form

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

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.