Vesna (given name)

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]

Vesna

Pronunciation	VEHS-nah
Gender	female
Origin
Word/name	Slavic
Meaning	spring; mythological Slavic goddess of spring.
Region of origin	Eastern Europe

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

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.