Vera

Vera means "truth" in Russian and "faith" in Slavic tradition, and in Latin it carries the sense of genuine or real. Three letters, two syllables, no embellishment. The name reached the American top 100 in the 1910s, disappeared into the midcentury, and returned in the 2010s when grandmother names found their second chapter. It now sits inside the top 250 and continues to rise. Writer Vera Nabokov, designer Vera Wang, aviator Vera Atkins: a lineage of women who got things done. Vera is unfussy and literary, the name of a woman who means what she says.