Vanessa

Girl coinages #304 in 2023

Vanessa is a girl name of coinages origin.

Meaning of Vanessa

as a pseudonym for a lady friend named (or Van Homrigh), an Irish woman of Dutch descent, by taking the - preposition van from her surname and adding -essa (perhaps influenced by the first syllable of Esther).

Popularity of Vanessa

Popularity, 1900–2023

1,012 births in 2023

1900 2023

259,860 U.S. births recorded from 1900–2023.

Peak year

1985

7,564 babies

First recorded

1900

123 years of history

Recent trend

Falling

Last 5 yrs vs. prior 5

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Popularity counts come from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national dataset. Etymology adapted from Wiktionary under CC BY-SA 4.0. If you spot an error, please let us know.