Vera (Cyrillic: Вера: Véra, "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin.
[3] Gender: Feminine[4] Other scripts: Вера (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian) Diminutives: Verica (Serbian and Croatian), Verka or Vierka (Slovakian), Verochka (Russian).
Other languages: Véra (French), Věra (Czech), Veera (Finnish), Wiera (Polish), Vira (Ukrainian), Viera (Slovak), فيرا (Arabic) In the Ancient Greek Christian faith, Saint Fides (Faith or Vera), her sisters Spes (Hope) and Caritas (Love) and their mother Sophia (Wisdom), died as martyrs in the second century AD during the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire under the emperor Hadrian[citation needed].
), from Anglo-French verrai, Old French verai "true, truthful, sincere; right, just, legal," from Vulgar Latin *veracus, from Latin verax (genitive veracis) "truthful," from verus "true" (source also of Italian vero), from PIE root *were-o- "true, trustworthy."
The Albanian masculine version of the name is Veriu which has the meaning "North" (as in the cardinal direction), Alb.