Vanesa

Where Vanesa comes from

Vanesa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1953
    First appearance
    #4,595 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Vanesa Amorós born
    Spanish handball player
  3. 1992
    Vanesa Kaladzinskaya born
    Belarusian wrestler
  4. 1997
    Peak, #839
    246 babies named Vanesa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,751.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Vanesa Kaladzinskaya · Belarusian wrestler, born 1992
  • Vanesa Amorós · Spanish handball player, born 1982
  • Vanesa Martín · Spanish singer and songwriter, born 1980
  • Vanesa Gimbert · Association footballer, born 1980
  • Vanesa Romero · Spanish presenter, model and television presenter, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.