Vanesa

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Krsna (N)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Vanesa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Spain it is the 96th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 608(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 1.1K
  • BRBrazil1 in 532as Vanessa

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vanesa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

397,874 named Vanessa, 2022

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
291 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 608 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VanesaLatin(measured from records)
ΒανέσαGreek(measured from records)
ვანესაGeorgian(measured from records)
바네사Hangul(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Krsna (N)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vanesa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Vanesa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—397,874as Vanessa1 in 532419KVanesa84
US United States—239,196as Vanessa1 in 1.4K239KVanesa291
AR Argentina#113≈75,000 est.≈1 in 60847Vanesa143
ES Spain#9644,7851 in 1.1K45KVanesa201
EC Ecuador—19,577as Vanessa1 in 86420KVanesa34
CZ Czechia—10,8621 in 98511K—2
GY Guyana—1,265as Vanessa1 in 5931.3K—4

397,874 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling vanessa. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; MVČR — living population register 2017; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vanesa is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Spain, Croatia

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Polish

    Also written Ванесса, Vanessa, Ванеса, Ванэсса, Ванэса

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Vanésa, Vànesa, Vänësa

  • Lao given name47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Vanessa, Vannessa, วาเนสซ่า, วาเนสซา, Wanessa

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Spain, Philippines, Peru

    Also written 'Vanesa

  • Hungarian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Hungary, Peru

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Vąnesą, Vänësä

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Vanesa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1970198019902000Vanesa Romero, b. 1978Vanesa Maja, b. 1978Vanesa Martín, b. 1980Vanesa Tomasino, b. 1981Vanesa Amorós, b. 1982Tania Rincón, b. 1986Vanesa Restrepo, b. 1987Vanesa Furlanetto, b. 1987Vanesa Santana, b. 1990Vanesa Kaladzinskaya, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 78 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Vanesa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—45K#185
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—44K#102
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—19K#1,421
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202211K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—11K#1,578
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—11K#188
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207K#3,129
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—5.4K#211
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242K#616
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202054—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—48#1,578
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)202447#1,099

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Vanesa mean, and where does it come from?
Krsna (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
In which country does Vanesa have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 398 thousand people named Vanessa, more than in any other country we hold.
Is Vanesa a male or female name?
Vanesa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Vanesa?
In the etymology graph, Vanessa, Wanessa and Vanessza are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Vanesa?
In Spain, the national register counted 44,785 people named Vanesa, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Vanesa compared with other names?
In Spain, Vanesa is the 96th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vanesa” — the 96th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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