Vesna
PronunciationVEHS-nah
Genderfemale
Origin
Word/nameSlavic
Meaningspring; mythological Slavic goddess of spring.
Region of originEastern Europe

Vesna (Cyrillic: Весна) is a Slavic female name derived from the name of Vesna, an ancient Slavic goddess of spring. It means "spring" in some Slavic languages. It is in use in Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. It is also given in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. It rarely appears in Poland (as Wiosna, Wesna, and Vesna).[1]

In Croatia, the name Vesna was the second most common feminine given name between 1960 and 1969, while appearing among the most common ones in two earlier decades as well.[2]

People named Vesna

 Vesna Main (born 1955) European writer
 Vesna Parun (1922-2010) Croatian poet

Fictional people named Vesna

See also

References

  1. Grzenia, Jan (2012-11-23). "Kwiatosław i Wiosna". sjp.pwn.pl. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Retrieved 2023-03-01. Imię Wiosna noszą 4 Polki, 8 razy zanotowano też formę Vesna, spolszczenie Wesna pojawia się 3 razy.
  2. "Most frequent male and female given names by year of birth, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
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