Fewer than five US girls were named Venessa in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #697, reached in 1984. That year also had the most girls given the name: 239. For comparison, it was #6,225 in 2015 and #5,271 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Venessa in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 5 babies. In all, 5,767 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,978 babies named Venessa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 67 US girls were named Venessa; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 11.
Rarer spellings such as Vinessa, Venesa and Vennessa are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.