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Vanesa

#4,871 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Vanessa

Vanesa has been given to 6,544 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #4,871 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 271 recorded.

Babies named Vanesa, 2025

1 in 118,000

Vanesa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vanesa: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Vanessa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vanesa means

Vanesa is a English equivalent of Vanessa.

Origin, language, and formation

Vanesa is used in Albanian, Czech and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vanessa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Vanesa is pronounced [ˈvanɛsa].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,539 girls were recorded with the name Vanesa between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 271 in 2002; its best national rank was #842 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,653 in 2020 to #4,871 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,126 in 2015 to #4,871 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Vanesa between 1985 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1985; its best national rank was #7,529 in 1985.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Vanesa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,871
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vanesa 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 2025 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vanesa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vanesas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vanesa was born before 1999 — so the typical Vanesa is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,539
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Choose a decade

2000s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (2,216).

Is Vanesa 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
+557
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+782
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,745
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.3%
Peak was 2002 (271)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#842
1996

Spellings of Vanesa

Vanesa is not the most common spelling — Vanessa is, with 75.4% against Vanesa's 1.9%.

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 Vanesa is used

Across 1910–2025, Vanesa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 26,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 8,333
  2. 2Nevada1 in 10,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arizona1 in 16,667
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 20,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 25,000
  8. 8Oregon1 in 25,000

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. Vanesa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vanesa around the world

Where Vanesa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2003–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1982–2022
    #2,671
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #2,869
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1953–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Vanesa

People whose public names include Vanesa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Vanesa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Vanesa. Linked forms have their own page here.

VanisaVanessaWanesaWanessaVanessza

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Vanesa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,871
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 782
Best rank ever
#842
1996
Peak year
2002
271 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,539
Count in 2025
28

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,529
1985
Peak year
1985
5 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vanesa

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

VannesaVanityVaniaVannaVanyaVanitaAneesaVannieVandaAleesaVanniaVannessaThresaTresaVangieVanVanettaLeesaJaleesaVanaVanezaVaniReesaVanellope

Names with a curve like Vanesa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vanesa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YajairaAlysaReannaTristanGabrielElyssaKalynShakiraErynKeyonnaJoanaAlyssia

Sibling names for Vanesa

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

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