Vanassa
Vanassa was last recorded in 1999, when 7 babies were given it; 369 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vanassa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vanassa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vanassa is “a given name. The title of the Queen of Perge or an associated goddess around 400 BC meaning “female chief” - not related to the given name Vanessa”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vanassa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,621, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1955, the peak
Vanassa peaked in 1955, when 21 girls were given it, #2,466 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 7 | #12,621 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,682 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,303 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,155 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,637 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,661 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,966 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,499 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,271 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,108 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 8 | #8,018 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,196 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,119 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,386 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,168 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,523 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,238 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,649 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,852 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,096 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,525 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,339 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,662 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,222 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,251 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,541 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,627 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,793 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 18 | #3,026 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,948 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,428 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,862 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,065 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,341 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,896 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,466 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,480 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,208 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vanassa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vanassa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vanassa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vanassa, and how old are they?
An estimated 331 Americans named Vanassa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 43 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 285 people named Vanassa (284 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 342 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 274,563 babies since 1880, Vanassa is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 841 babies recorded by SSA was a Vanassa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vanassa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Vanassa and names like it
- Compare Vanassa and VanessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sVanassa peaked in 1955.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vanassa since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Vanassa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vanassa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.