Janessa

Where Janessa comes from

20th-century blend of Janice + Vanessa.
— Wiktionary's entry for Janessa
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1954
    First appearance
    #4,655 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2004
    Peak, #524
    544 babies named Janessa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #971.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes

No widely known Janessa turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.