Vannesa
Vannesa was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 1,220 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Vannesa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 24 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vannesa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vannesa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,549, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
54 babies in 1990, the peak
Vannesa peaked in 1990, when 54 girls were given it, #2,338 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #15,549 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,227 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,929 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,385 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,499 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,381 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,752 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,615 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,530 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 30 | #5,000 | 15.9 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 28 | #5,221 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,259 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,258 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,807 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,940 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,271 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,624 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,729 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,930 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,566 | 30.6 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,154 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,015 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,873 | 23.9 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,578 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,930 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,568 | 26.6 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,529 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,338 | 28.4 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,761 | 22.2 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,209 | 29.2 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,123 | 29.9 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,775 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,241 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,845 | 19.0 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,943 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,255 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,732 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,065 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,738 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,551 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,524 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 10 | #6,030 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,022 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,268 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,534 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,680 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vannesa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vannesa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vannesa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vannesa, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,220 Americans ever recorded as Vannesa. The median Vannesa alive today is 31 years old; half are between 24 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,347 people named Vannesa (1,344 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,199 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 599 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 491 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 31 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Vannesa born?
The states with the most babies named Vannesa are California, Texas and Illinois, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 451 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Texas | 158 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Vannesa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vannesa is most over-represented in California: since 1955 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Vannesa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Vannesa?
Vannesa is a less common spelling of Vanessa: SSA has recorded 1,220 Vannesa and 262,606 Vanessa since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 274,266 babies since 1880, Vannesa is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 841 babies recorded by SSA was a Vannesa (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 Vannesa
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 Vannesa and names like it
- Compare Vannesa and VanessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sVannesa peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vannesa since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Vannesa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Vannesa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with VMost given first.