Girls' name · since 2006
Vanessah
16 babies named Vanessah in U.S. Social Security records since 2006, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #49,318 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 16
- born since 2006
- 2000s
- peak decade
Vanessah sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 16 recorded since 2006.
Vanessah has 16 recorded births among girls since 2006, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2006 to 2012.
- #49,318 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 16 born since 2006
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Vanessah ranks #49,318 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 16 born since 2006, peaking in the 2000s.
- #49,318 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 16
- born since 2006
- 2000s
- peak decade
Vanessah's 16 recorded births place it above 31.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Vanessah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Vanessah's full recorded timeline at 2008, 63% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 37% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2008, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2006 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Vanessah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2006–2012
- Peak year (2006)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Vanessah by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (11 births, 69% of the file).
2000s was Vanessah's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 69% of all-time use.
Vanessah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
11 births
- 2010s
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 11 births (69% of all-time use).
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- Vanessah's usage has stayed within range of its 2000s decade-level peak (11 total births) through the 2010s (5) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Vanessah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2006)
Similar record span (~6 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2006–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Vanessah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.