Vanesa
Vanesa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. Its best rank was 842nd, in 1996–1997.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 240.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2002271 births
- Best rank
- #842first in 1996
- Since 1953
- 6,510people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,510 girls have been named Vanesa in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 271 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 2000s alone account for 34%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Vanesa was the 852nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2002 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Emma and Alexis. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Vanesa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shaylapeak 1999
- Shalynnpeak 1995
- Brennapeak 1995
- Raeannapeak 1999
- Keyonnapeak 1995
- Yajairapeak 2005
- Jasminpeak 2006
- Shaelapeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.