Vanessia
Vanessia was last recorded in 1995, when 6 babies were given it; 297 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vanessia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vanessia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,327, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1961, the peak
Vanessia peaked in 1961, when 22 girls were given it, #2,669 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | #13,327 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,698 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,075 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,157 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,738 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,257 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,502 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,635 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,109 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,198 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #10,369 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,408 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,844 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,617 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,350 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,340 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,040 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,976 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,437 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,476 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,785 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,449 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,523 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,584 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,669 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,722 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,973 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,077 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,143 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,451 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,710 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,626 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,575 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vanessia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vanessia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vanessia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vanessia, and how old are they?
An estimated 262 Americans named Vanessia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 45 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 283 people named Vanessia (283 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 273 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 273,343 babies since 1880, Vanessia is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 841 babies recorded by SSA was a Vanessia (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 Vanessia
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 Vanessia and names like it
- Compare Vanessia and VanessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sVanessia peaked in 1961.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vanessia since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Vanessia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vanessia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.