Vanassa

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Vanassa has been given to 369 babies in the U.S. since 1953. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1955, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Vanassa, 1999

1 in 527,000

Vanassa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vanassa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vanassa means

Vanassa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vanassa is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 369 girls were recorded with the name Vanassa between 1953 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1955; its best national rank was #2,466 in 1955.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Vanassa?

Vanassa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999: 1 in 527,000; 7 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only: 1 in 253,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 365,624 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Vanassa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 365,624 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vanassa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vanassas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vanassa was born before 1969 — so the typical Vanassa is around 56 today.

Median birth year: 1969; About 56 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 36.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 369; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Vanassa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1955 (21)
Years since peak: 70; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,466; 1955

Spellings of Vanassa

Vanassa is not the most common spelling — Vanessa is, with 81.8% against Vanassa's 0.12%.

Vanessa81.8%261,622
Janessa4.6%14,722
Anissa3.9%12,498
Vanesa2.0%6,539
Venessa1.8%5,767
Vannessa1.0%3,231
Anessa0.90%2,876
Anyssa0.65%2,090

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Vanassa is used

Across 1910–2025, Vanassa was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 498,591 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Alabama1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vanassa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vanassa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,466; 1955
Peak year: 1955; 21 that year
First recorded: 1953
Last recorded: 1999
All-time count: 369
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Vanassa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Vanissa Vannessa Vanshika Vaniyah Vannia Vanesha Vanisha Vanette Genessa Janissa Vanilla Vanecia Vaneza Kalyssa Aleyssa Calissa Jelissa Julyssa Vanessia Vaness Adessa Vanellope Kalissa Vanity

Sibling names for Vanassa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Romona Joycelyn Marita Roxann Meryl Roxane Jacalyn Suzan

For a brother

Leigh Hayward Burt Fritz Stanton Stanford Lindsey Jerrold

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