Vesna (given name)
Pronunciation | VEHS-nah |
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Gender | female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Slavic |
Meaning | spring; mythological Slavic goddess of spring. |
Region of origin | Eastern 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.
People named Vesna[]
- Vesna Čitaković (born 1979), Serbian volleyball player
- Vesna Dolonc (born 1989), Serbian tennis player
- Vesna Györkös Žnidar (born 1977), Slovenian politician
- Vesna Jovanovic (born 1976), American visual artist
- Vesna Krmpotić (1932–2018), Croatian writer and translator
- Vesna Milačić Kaja (born 1968), Montenegrin singer
- Vesna Milanović-Litre (born 1986), Croatian handball player
- Vesna Milošević (born 1955), Yugoslav handball player
- Vesna Mišanović (born 1964), Bosnian chess player
- Vesna Pešić (born 1940), Serbian politician and sociologist
- Vesna Pisarović (born 1978), Croatian singer
- Vesna Pusić (born 1953), Croatian politician and sociologist
- Vesna Radović (born 1954), Yugoslav/Austrian handball player
- Vesna Rožič (1987–2013), Slovenian chess player
- Vesna Škare-Ožbolt (born 1961), Croatian politician
- Vesna Teršelič (born 1962), Croatian peace activist
- Vesna Trivalić (born 1965), Serbian actress
- Vesna Vulović (1950–2016), Serbian flight attendant
- Vesna Zmijanac (born 1957), Serbian singer
Fictional people named Vesna[]
- Vesna, a character from the movie Loners.
- Vesna in Alien Nation.
- Vesna, a character from the game The Witcher.
See also[]
- Slavic names
- All pages with titles beginning with Vesna
Categories:
- Given names
- Bosnian feminine given names
- Bulgarian feminine given names
- Serbian feminine given names
- Croatian feminine given names
- Macedonian feminine given names
- Slovene feminine given names
- Czech feminine given names
- Slovak feminine given names
- Russian feminine given names
- Ukrainian feminine given names