Vanesa — #5308 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Vanesa

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,510 babies named Vanesa between 1953 and 2024, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vanesa currently holds the #5308 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 271 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vanesa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,215 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Vanesa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,880 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Vanesa in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vanesa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,510 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.