Vanêssa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vanêssa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Coined by Jonathan Swift for a lady friend named Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 501(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 532
- COColombia≈1 in 901
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #610 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 490 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 501 (inferred from the name graph)
397,874 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Vanessa in BR Brazil, US United States, CO Colombia and 3 more and Vannessa in FR France.
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)
Coined by Jonathan Swift for a lady friend named Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh.
Sources 5
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vanêssa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #65 | 397,874 | 1 in 532 | 419K | Vanessa | 252 |
| US United States | #836 | 239,196 | 1 in 1.4K | 239K | Vanessa | 490 |
| FR France | — | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 719 | 81K | Vannessa | 85 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Vanessa | 115 |
| CO Colombia | #71 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 901 | 2 | Vanessa | 182 |
| PT Portugal | #80 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 501 | listed | Vanessa | 154 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 19,577 | 1 in 864 | 20K | Vanessa | 77 |
397,874 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 419K | #107 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vanêssa mean, and where does it come from?
- Coined by Jonathan Swift for a lady friend named Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 3 other sources.
- Is Vanêssa a male or female name?
- Vanêssa 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.
- In which country does Vanêssa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 398 thousand people named Vanêssa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vanessa.
- How common is the name Vanêssa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 397,874 people named Vanêssa in 2022, about 1 in 532 residents.
- How common is Vanêssa compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Vanêssa is the 65th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/van%C3%AAssaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Vanêssa” — the 65th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.