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Vanessa
Pronounced /vəˈnɛsə/
Rank in 2024
#334
Born in 2024
933
Peak year
1985 · #42
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 933 girls were named Vanessa, about 1 in every 1,729.
- It peaked in 1985 with 7,564 babies, ranked #42.
- It first shows up in the records in 1900.
- 260,793 girls have been named Vanessa since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Vanessa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.9Boomers1946–64
- 1.6Gen X1965–80
- 3.6Millennials1981–96
- 2.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 75 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 218 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 31,190 babies, 0.87 per 1,000. Gen X: 41,678 babies, 1.63 per 1,000. Millennials: 102,307 babies, 3.62 per 1,000. Gen Z: 68,202 babies, 2.35 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 17,117 babies, 0.84 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Coined by Jonathan Swift in the 18th century as a pseudonym for a lady friend named Esther Vanhomrigh (or Van Homrigh), an Irish woman of Dutch descent, by taking the Dutch preposition van from her surname and adding -essa (perhaps influenced by the first syllable of Esther).
- A female given name originating as a coinage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /vəˈnɛsə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Vanessa, CC BY-SA 4.0.