Vanessa
#377 for girls in 2025, 813 births · Last seen for boys in 2014 at #12,108
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1988 · 7,516 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 33 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 261,622since 1900
Vanessa over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
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 | #377 | 813 | — | |
| 2024 | #334 | 938 | — | |
| 2023 | #304 | 1,014 | — | |
| 2022 | #311 | 1,026 | — | |
| 2021 | #253 | 1,226 | — | |
| 2020 | #209 | 1,384 | — | |
| 2019 | #271 | 1,224 | — | |
| 2018 | #231 | 1,378 | — | |
| 2017 | #203 | 1,521 | — | |
| 2016 | #197 | 1,664 | — | |
| 2015 | #187 | 1,729 | — | |
| 2014 | #171 | 1,927 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #152 | 2,095 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #123 | 2,554 | — | |
| 2011 | #120 | 2,620 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #107 | 2,888 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #91 | 3,523 | — | |
| 2008 | #78 | 4,032 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #71 | 4,447 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #79 | 4,169 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #80 | 4,095 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #75 | 4,350 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #70 | 4,352 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #68 | 4,455 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #64 | 4,672 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #62 | 5,134 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #57 | 5,287 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #52 | 5,830 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #54 | 5,796 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #60 | 5,746 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #63 | 5,404 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #59 | 5,552 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #55 | 5,890 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #55 | 6,080 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #56 | 5,926 | #2,469 | 28 |
| 1990 | #56 | 6,409 | #2,214 | 32 |
| 1989 | #50 | 6,962 | #1,537 | 53 |
| 1988 | #41 | 7,516 | #1,189 | 72 |
| 1987 | #43 | 7,348 | #1,534 | 46 |
| 1986 | #43 | 7,469 | #1,511 | 44 |
| 1985 | #42 | 7,563 | #1,544 | 42 |
| 1984 | #45 | 7,156 | #1,458 | 43 |
| 1983 | #48 | 6,388 | #1,190 | 58 |
| 1982 | #49 | 6,154 | #1,278 | 53 |
| 1981 | #62 | 4,749 | #2,138 | 24 |
| 1980 | #69 | 4,426 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #75 | 4,102 | #2,669 | 17 |
| 1978 | #76 | 3,853 | #3,215 | 12 |
| 1977 | #90 | 3,209 | #2,791 | 15 |
| 1976 | #106 | 2,463 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #115 | 2,440 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #122 | 2,353 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #134 | 2,144 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #133 | 2,280 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #129 | 2,657 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | #138 | 2,576 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #147 | 2,234 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #181 | 1,797 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #170 | 1,869 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #197 | 1,643 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #203 | 1,632 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #183 | 2,056 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #188 | 2,032 | — | |
| 1962 | #175 | 2,244 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #153 | 2,765 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #154 | 2,711 | #3,077 | 8 |
| 1959 | #139 | 3,120 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1958 | #148 | 2,744 | #2,642 | 10 |
| 1957 | #159 | 2,379 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #145 | 2,617 | — | |
| 1955 | #140 | 2,698 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | #142 | 2,643 | #2,743 | 9 |
| 1953 | #163 | 2,007 | — | |
| 1952 | #303 | 695 | — | |
| 1951 | #656 | 176 | — | |
| 1950 | #937 | 91 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,070 | 70 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,057 | 69 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,170 | 59 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,941 | 19 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,511 | 13 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,040 | 10 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,214 | 16 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,668 | 11 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,203 | 14 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,113 | 15 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,914 | 17 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,691 | 20 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,264 | 32 | — | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,047 | 9 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,845 | 10 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 | — | |
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | — | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,688 | 10 | — | |
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| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
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| 1900 | #1,723 | 6 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Vanessa! It came in at #1,723, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1901–1914, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Vanessa
- 43 spots since 2024 (#334 → #377)
- 168 spots since 2020 (#209 → #377)
- 190 spots since 2015 (#187 → #377)
- Biggest jump: 353 spots in 1952 (#656 → #303)
- Biggest drop: 58 spots in 2022 (#253 → #311)
- Debuted 1900
- Peaked 1988 at #41 (7,516 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 33 yrs · run 1977–2009
- Top 1,000: 76 yrs · run 1950–2025
- Highest: 1 in 228 girls born in 1985 were named Vanessa (0.44%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,977 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- Its best rank, #41 in 1988, was only 1 in 237 (0.42%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.1% of all girls named Vanessa (65,731) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | #1,723 (1900) | #1,723 |
| 1910s | 35 | #2,688 (1915) | #3,493 |
| 1920s | 51 | #3,350 (1923) | #4,278 |
| 1930s | 124 | #1,264 (1935) | #2,578 |
| 1940s | 295 | #1,057 (1948) | #2,047 |
| 1950s | 19,170 | #139 (1959) | #293 |
| 1960s | 20,983 | #147 (1969) | #175 |
| 1970s | 28,077 | #75 (1979) | #112 |
| 1980s | 65,731 | #41 (1988) | #49 |
| 1990s | 57,920 | #52 (1998) | #57 |
| 2000s | 43,229 | #62 (2000) | #74 |
| 2010s | 19,600 | #107 (2010) | #176 |
| 2020s | 6,401 | #209 (2020) | #298 |
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.
Vanessa in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 403 of them was named Vanessa, which outranked 99.6% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 388,303 of them was named Vanessa, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).