Vanessa Forename
579th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,345,846 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Gabon
Vanessa Forename Definition:
A female name. a name invented by Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh (cf. his Cadenus and Vanessa), occasionally used as a christian name.
Vanessa Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 100% | 409,727 | 1:523 | 61 |
| United States | 100% | 211,071 | 1:1,718 | 348 |
| Philippines | 100% | 57,980 | 1:1,828 | 378 |
| France | 100% | 54,970 | 1:1,209 | 205 |
| England | 100% | 41,000 | 1:1,356 | 268 |
| Mexico | 100% | 38,441 | 1:3,229 | 444 |
| Spain | 100% | 34,789 | 1:1,337 | 203 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 31,732 | 1:952 | 147 |
| Mozambique | - | 24,479 | 1:1,113 | 240 |
| South Africa | 100% | 22,691 | 1:2,403 | 414 |
| Peru | 100% | 22,599 | 1:1,407 | 285 |
| Portugal | - | 21,593 | 1:482 | 91 |
| Canada | 100% | 21,317 | 1:1,554 | 339 |
| Germany | 100% | 19,638 | 1:4,923 | 506 |
| Malawi | 100% | 19,058 | 1:898 | 196 |
| Chile | 100% | 18,406 | 1:957 | 189 |
| Australia | - | 17,905 | 1:763 | 174 |
| Belgium | 100% | 17,223 | 1:667 | 158 |
| Haiti | 100% | 16,582 | 1:647 | 92 |
| Ecuador | - | 16,352 | 1:1,084 | 208 |
| Angola | 100% | 14,576 | 1:1,850 | 379 |
| Central African Republic | - | 12,970 | 1:348 | 133 |
| Burundi | 67% | 10,862 | 1:912 | 282 |
| Gabon | 100% | 10,143 | 1:186 | 11 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 9,674 | 1:2,443 | 581 |
| Italy | 100% | 8,632 | 1:7,074 | 527 |
| Congo | 100% | 7,894 | 1:635 | 100 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 7,813 | 1:2,163 | 429 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 7,493 | 1:1,518 | 320 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 6,735 | 1:1,574 | 372 |
| Ghana | 100% | 6,405 | 1:4,213 | 557 |
| New Zealand | - | 6,188 | 1:733 | 174 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 6,171 | 1:1,690 | 271 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 6,139 | 1:3,520 | 618 |
| DR Congo | 98% | 6,122 | 1:12,059 | 1,163 |
| Kenya | - | 5,629 | 1:8,227 | 1,116 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 5,159 | 1:924 | 200 |
| Panama | 100% | 4,050 | 1:965 | 163 |
| Colombia | 100% | 3,986 | 1:11,987 | 1,002 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 3,666 | 1:2,240 | 430 |
| Czechia | 100% | 3,281 | 1:3,248 | 285 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 3,267 | 1:1,087 | 171 |
| Thailand | 100% | 3,193 | 1:21,944 | 2,967 |
| El Salvador | - | 2,860 | 1:2,217 | 310 |
| Chad | 100% | 2,657 | 1:5,118 | 775 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 2,352 | 1:12,946 | 1,410 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 2,195 | 1:80,895 | 4,924 |
| Honduras | 100% | 2,140 | 1:4,120 | 590 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 1,981 | 1:1,730 | 257 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 1,977 | 1:26,701 | 2,456 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 1,821 | 1:3,305 | 543 |
| Argentina | 100% | 1,816 | 1:23,554 | 996 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 1,777 | 1:766 | 105 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,748 | 1:17,627 | 2,361 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 1,711 | 1:9,415 | 856 |
| Wales | 100% | 1,663 | 1:1,861 | 355 |
| Suriname | 100% | 1,612 | 1:343 | 19 |
| Russia | 99% | 1,563 | 1:92,280 | 1,806 |
| Guyana | 100% | 1,515 | 1:504 | 31 |
| Austria | 100% | 1,423 | 1:5,983 | 495 |
| Ireland | 100% | 1,411 | 1:3,291 | 399 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1,365 | 1:5,302 | 740 |
| Morocco | - | 1,256 | 1:27,348 | 1,493 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,225 | 1:210,583 | 20,119 |
| Togo | - | 1,154 | 1:6,273 | 988 |
| Sweden | 100% | 1,151 | 1:8,565 | 795 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1,145 | 1:18,165 | 2,459 |
| China | - | 1,113 | 1:1,227,364 | 36,913 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,075 | 1:4,977 | 485 |
| India | 100% | 991 | 1:1,225,911 | 75,112 |
| Poland | 99% | 990 | 1:38,411 | 1,114 |
| Namibia | - | 932 | 1:2,580 | 464 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 898 | 1:25,697 | 2,214 |
| Malta | - | 869 | 1:494 | 118 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 827 | 1:6,805 | 849 |
| Vanuatu | - | 822 | 1:318 | 58 |
| Singapore | 100% | 810 | 1:7,762 | 1,390 |
| Romania | 100% | 807 | 1:24,848 | 1,678 |
| Uganda | 100% | 741 | 1:55,272 | 3,149 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 686 | 1:394 | 87 |
| Qatar | 100% | 685 | 1:3,459 | 530 |
| Jamaica | - | 675 | 1:4,271 | 726 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 664 | 1:849 | 183 |
| Samoa | - | 639 | 1:305 | 72 |
| Egypt | 100% | 629 | 1:146,106 | 5,938 |
| Belize | 100% | 588 | 1:603 | 75 |
| Hong Kong | - | 568 | 1:13,649 | 1,215 |
| Zambia | - | 482 | 1:32,894 | 2,402 |
| Greece | 100% | 460 | 1:23,771 | 1,104 |
| Mauritius | - | 448 | 1:2,897 | 510 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 434 | 1:18,784 | 1,867 |
| Fiji | - | 403 | 1:2,214 | 616 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 382 | 1:408 | 107 |
| French Polynesia | - | 373 | 1:745 | 164 |
| Mali | - | 331 | 1:51,292 | 2,831 |
| Botswana | 100% | 311 | 1:7,024 | 1,107 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 305 | 1:8,062 | 803 |
| Bahamas | - | 290 | 1:1,377 | 331 |
| Denmark | - | 254 | 1:22,242 | 1,256 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 245 | 1:62,954 | 5,139 |
| Kuwait | - | 209 | 1:18,111 | 1,954 |
| Norway | 100% | 206 | 1:24,914 | 1,378 |
| Benin | 100% | 190 | 1:55,662 | 4,200 |
| Finland | 100% | 190 | 1:28,859 | 1,326 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 177 | 1:134,292 | 14,168 |
| Japan | - | 172 | 1:744,105 | 13,251 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 168 | 1:552 | 125 |
| Guam | - | 164 | 1:980 | 210 |
| Bahrain | - | 163 | 1:8,274 | 1,321 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 156 | 1:406 | 104 |
| Tonga | - | 151 | 1:711 | 162 |
| Albania | 100% | 146 | 1:20,867 | 2,626 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 140 | 1:13,165 | 846 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 136 | 1:226,371 | 5,030 |
| Kazakhstan | 91% | 132 | 1:134,446 | 3,609 |
| Andorra | - | 128 | 1:648 | 101 |
| Swaziland | - | 128 | 1:10,158 | 1,360 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 126 | 1:789 | 132 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 124 | 1:4,267 | 611 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 122 | 1:1,458 | 262 |
| Cuba | - | 121 | 1:95,095 | 1,998 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 120 | 1:1,600 | 319 |
| Liberia | 96% | 113 | 1:39,045 | 2,222 |
| Belarus | 98% | 112 | 1:84,664 | 910 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 105 | 1:175,043 | 8,164 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 103 | 1:533 | 71 |
| Croatia | 100% | 99 | 1:42,597 | 1,604 |
| Micronesia | - | 99 | 1:1,076 | 167 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 99 | 1:1,127 | 180 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 98 | 1:1,983,242 | 27,189 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 90 | 1:607 | 101 |
| Aruba | - | 88 | 1:1,179 | 242 |
| Hungary | 100% | 79 | 1:123,946 | 805 |
| Jersey | - | 77 | 1:1,298 | 282 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 76 | 1:110,196 | 3,256 |
| Grenada | 100% | 75 | 1:1,442 | 297 |
| Monaco | 100% | 75 | 1:513 | 86 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 75 | 1:463 | 65 |
| Bermuda | - | 68 | 1:953 | 204 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 68 | 1:1,614 | 323 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 64 | 1:958 | 205 |
| Barbados | - | 58 | 1:4,996 | 767 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 53 | 1:134,943 | 9,419 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 53 | 1:1,747,606 | 3,074 |
| Estonia | 100% | 46 | 1:28,595 | 2,108 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 43 | 1:13,511 | 1,219 |
| South Korea | - | 43 | 1:128,940 | 5,936 |
| Iran | - | 41 | 1:1,914,558 | 12,040 |
| Latvia | 100% | 40 | 1:50,391 | 1,394 |
| Iceland | 100% | 37 | 1:9,892 | 909 |
| Gibraltar | - | 36 | 1:948 | 199 |
| Turkey | 100% | 35 | 1:2,222,906 | 15,005 |
| Senegal | 100% | 33 | 1:441,859 | 6,104 |
| Macau | - | 29 | 1:20,973 | 372 |
| San Marino | 100% | 28 | 1:1,176 | 218 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 25 | 1:1,250 | 294 |
| Sudan | - | 25 | 1:1,512,279 | 3,324 |
| Iraq | 100% | 24 | 1:1,459,077 | 10,051 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 24 | 1:1,577 | 289 |
| Armenia | 100% | 20 | 1:145,938 | 3,082 |
| Moldova | - | 20 | 1:178,057 | 1,710 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 20 | 1:23,782 | 522 |
| American Samoa | - | 14 | 1:3,989 | 735 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 13 | 1:408,466 | 2,011 |
| Cambodia | 67% | 11 | 1:1,479,394 | 19,817 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 10 | 1:1,326 | 247 |
| Kosovo | - | 10 | 1:186,144 | 7,603 |
| Bangladesh | - | 9 | 1:17,717,930 | 19,122 |
| East Timor | - | 9 | 1:135,375 | 266 |
| Laos | - | 9 | 1:731,873 | 503 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 8 | 1:1,205,368 | 16,287 |
| Oman | - | 8 | 1:513,583 | 5,181 |
| Greenland | - | 7 | 1:8,053 | 908 |
| Jordan | 100% | 7 | 1:1,260,968 | 6,027 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 7 | 1:902 | 214 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 6 | 1:995,546 | 22,001 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 6 | 1:972 | 199 |
| Afghanistan | - | 5 | 1:6,524,703 | 31,933 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 5 | 1:1,398,078 | 12,856 |
| Cook Islands | - | 5 | 1:3,631 | 547 |
| Dominica | - | 5 | 1:15,094 | 483 |
| Georgia | 100% | 5 | 1:747,693 | 11,698 |
| Tunisia | - | 5 | 1:135,380 | 6,628 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 5 | 1:9,099,982 | 12,980 |
| Brunei | - | 4 | 1:104,892 | 1,566 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 4 | 1:786 | 147 |
| Gambia | - | 4 | 1:481,649 | 818 |
| Montserrat | - | 4 | 1:1,219 | 202 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 4 | 1:581 | 152 |
| Serbia | - | 4 | 1:1,786,430 | 6,903 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Montenegro | - | 3 | 1:211,525 | 3,416 |
| Cyprus | - | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Guinea | - | 2 | 1:5,929,324 | 6,648 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Israel | 100% | 2 | 1:4,201,459 | 30,777 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| North Macedonia | - | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Niue | - | 1 | 1:1,604 | 70 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
The alternate forms: Vanêssa (42), Vanéssa (10), Vanèssa (5), Vanessá (3), Vañessa (1) & Vânessa (1) are calculated separately.
Vanessa (6,921) may also be a surname.
Vanessa Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. a name invented by Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh (cf. his Cadenus and Vanessa), occasionally used as a christian name.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Is not recorded by ‘Swan’, while ‘Yonge’ barely touches on Italian As Swift’s name (see especially his journal and letters) for Esther Vanhomrigh, it is obviously a Latinisation of Van-+Esther; Swift, however,—again obviously,—knew something of Hebrew and therefore presumably knew that the Italian m. Vanni was, in Hebrew, ‘grace of God’: the Dean, who was passionately attached to this lady, may even have known that the Dutch Vanjuscha has the same derivation (see too John); I doubt Charlotte Yonge’s ‘the generic title of our finest English butterflies, Vanessa’. The name, never general, has been, in a mild way, popularised by Hugh Walpole as the title of the fourth and last volume (1934) of the Herries chronicle.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Teutonic (feminine) - Beautiful.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Greek name, meaning: A butterfly, the name originating from a mystic divinity in the Orphic system.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Vanessa Forename Popularity
Vanessa Demographics
Vanessa Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 107 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Vanessa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vanessa in the Russian language | ||
| Ванесса | vanessa | - |
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