Verbena
Verbena is a girl name of Latin origin, meaning Sacred bough; the healing herb.
What Verbena means
Sacred bough; the healing herb.
Verbena sits at 7 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Verbena comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Verbena is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Verbena?
In the girl name rankings we track, Verbena falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Verbena
We group Verbena under flowers and growing things and Healer — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Verbena
These share Verbena's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- April — Opening buds of spring.
- Camellia — The camellia flower.
- Flora — Flower; goddess of spring.
- Florence — Flourishing; in bloom.
- Rosa — Rose.
- Rosemary — Dew of the sea; the herb of remembrance.
- Aoi — Hollyhock; the color blue.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Daphne — The laurel tree.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.