Vanesa
- #4,758 for girls in 2025, 28 births
- Last seen for boys in 1985 at #6,523
- Given to girls 99.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 246 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,539since 1953
Vanesa over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Vanesa has never cracked the top 800 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,758 | 28 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,343 | 32 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,562 | 30 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,092 | 54 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,582 | 68 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,211 | 84 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,624 | 133 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,857 | 108 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,751 | 118 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,358 | 175 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,117 | 231 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,100 | 236 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,126 | 220 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,125 | 209 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,050 | 220 | — | |
| 2003 | #967 | 240 | — | |
| 2002 | #850 | 271 | — | |
| 2001 | #989 | 217 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,053 | 197 | — | |
| 1999 | #971 | 213 | — | |
| 1998 | #928 | 225 | — | |
| 1997 | #839 | 246 | — | |
| 1996 | #840 | 237 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,014 | 183 | — | |
| 1994 | #912 | 209 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,100 | 164 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,164 | 151 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,087 | 166 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,141 | 151 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,196 | 136 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,246 | 119 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,209 | 119 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,177 | 120 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,178 | 120 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #1,080 | 129 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,144 | 116 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,461 | 82 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,700 | 67 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,904 | 56 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,998 | 51 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,516 | 34 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,002 | 48 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,736 | 26 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,379 | 15 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,060 | 17 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | — | |
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First appearance
1953
The first year at least five girls were named Vanesa! It came in at #4,595, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1955, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Vanesa is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Vanesa in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Vanesa
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 729 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #4,758)
- 1,666 spots since 2015 (#3,092 → #4,758)
- Biggest jump: 188 spots in 1994
- Biggest drop: 117 spots in 2003
Rise & fade · girls
44 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1997 at #839 (246 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 8 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1996–1999
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,631
- Highest: 1 in 6,631 girls born in 2002 were named Vanesa (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 57,402 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #839 in 1997, was only 1 in 7,076 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 33.9% of all girls named Vanesa (2,216) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 63 | #2,755 (1958) | #4,478 |
| 1960s | 120 | #3,060 (1961) | #3,961 |
| 1970s | 274 | #1,998 (1979) | #3,050 |
| 1980s | 1,064 | #1,080 (1984) | #1,330 |
| 1990s | 1,945 | #839 (1997) | #1,000 |
| 2000s | 2,216 | #850 (2002) | #1,074 |
| 2010s | 710 | #1,624 (2012) | #2,938 |
| 2020s | 147 | #4,758 (2025) | #5,203 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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