Meaning not yet researched.
Vanesa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #842 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #842 in 1997; #4,872 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vanesa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,872 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #842.
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Vanesa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #842 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 271 (2002).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Vanesa, making it the 4,872nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 559 places from #5,431 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 24 girls named Vanesa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #842, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 271, in 2002. For comparison, it was #3,126 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vanesa in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 7 babies. In all, 6,544 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,216 babies named Vanesa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 292 US girls were named Vanesa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Vanessa (262,606 babies since 1880) and Vannessa (3,231 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Irish, Slovak and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Vanesa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,872 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,431 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,375 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,166 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,560 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,657 | — | — |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,431 | — | — |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,655 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,765 | — | — |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 2015 | 54 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 2012 | 133 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 2010 | 118 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 2009 | 175 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 2008 | 231 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 2007 | 236 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2006 | 220 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 2005 | 209 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 2004 | 220 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 2003 | 240 | #970 | — | — |
| 2002 | 271 | #852 | — | — |
| 2001 | 217 | #992 | — | — |
| 2000 | 197 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1999 | 213 | #974 | — | — |
| 1998 | 225 | #928 | — | — |
| 1997 | 246 | #842 | — | — |
| 1996 | 237 | #842 | — | — |
| 1995 | 183 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1994 | 209 | #914 | — | — |
| 1993 | 164 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1992 | 151 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1991 | 166 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1990 | 151 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1989 | 136 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1988 | 119 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1987 | 119 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1986 | 120 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1985 | 120 | #1,184 | 5 | #7,535 |
| 1984 | 129 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1983 | 116 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1981 | 67 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1979 | 51 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,858 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,887 | — | — |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,798 | — | — |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,953 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,988 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,476 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,482 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,506 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,523 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,183 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,609 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,523 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,680 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,572 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #5,001 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).