I'm generally a fan of girls' names that start with a V, but
Vera is one that I've never been able to warm up to. It sounds both cold and dowdy to me. I love
Verity and
Verena and would prefer to see those rather than
Vera.
A friend of mine, when she was expecting her first child, said she was going to name it
Vera if it were a girl. It wasn't, and when she did have a girl several years later, she opted for
Jade instead.