Vennessa
Vennessa was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 217 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vennessa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vennessa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #20,397, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1979, the peak
Vennessa peaked in 1979, when 14 girls were given it, #5,086 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #20,397 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,263 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,753 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,100 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,706 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,487 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,963 | 5.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,641 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,882 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,321 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 11 | #6,590 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,532 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,888 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,809 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,206 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,372 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,348 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,086 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,709 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,134 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,027 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,727 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,622 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,598 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,863 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,125 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vennessa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vennessa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vennessa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vennessa, and how old are they?
An estimated 207 Americans named Vennessa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 35 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 321 people named Vennessa (321 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Vennessa?
Vennessa is a less common spelling of Venessa: SSA has recorded 217 Vennessa and 5,767 Venessa since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,473 babies since 1880, Vennessa is the third most given (3.4% of them).
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 Vennessa
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 Vennessa and names like it
- Compare Vennessa and VenessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sVennessa peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Vennessa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Vennessa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with VMost given first.