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Venessa

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Venessa has been given to 5,767 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1984, with 239 recorded.

Babies named Venessa, 2024

1 in 557,000

Venessa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Venessa: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Venessa means

Venessa is a given name.

The naming story behind Venessa

Wikidata records Venessa as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98777317, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,767 girls were recorded with the name Venessa between 1922 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 239 in 1984; its best national rank was #697 in 1984.

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.

How common is Venessa?

Venessa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Venessa 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Venessa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Venessas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Venessa was born before 1982 — so the typical Venessa is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,740
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (1,978).

Is Venessa 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (239)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#697
1984

Spellings of Venessa

Venessa is not the most common spelling — Vanessa is, with 82.4% against Venessa's 1.8%.

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 Venessa is used

Across 1910–2025, Venessa was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 40,493 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 10,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 16,667
  3. 3Texas1 in 16,667
  4. 4California1 in 20,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 25,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 33,333
  7. 7New York1 in 33,333
  8. 8Alabama1 in 50,000

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

Venessa around the world

Where Venessa 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
    1996–2010
    #3,533
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    1971–1996
    #534
    in 1996
  • France
    1973–1977
    #2,740
    in 1977
  • Canada
    1991–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1946–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Venessa 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
#697
1984
Peak year
1984
239 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
5,767
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Venessa

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

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Names with a curve like Venessa

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

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Sibling names for Venessa

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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