Name: Vanessa
Gender: Female
Usage: Vanessa is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Vanessa are in general originating from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Vanessa is: Butterfly.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: humanitarian, self-sacrificing, idealistic, giving, altruist, devoted, romantic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Compassionate, Idealistic
Ruling planet: Mars
Colors: Red
Gemstones: Bloodstone
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The name Vanessa is ranked on the 184th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 3116400 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.043% of the population. The name Vanessa has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Vanessa for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Vanessa is 14 November.
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History and Origin
Vanessa is a feminine given name, especially popular in the United States and Germany. It was invented by the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh, whom Swift had met in 1708 and whom he tutored. The name was created by taking "Van" from Vanhomrigh's last name and adding "Essa", a pet form of Esther.
In 1726 the name Vanessa appeared in print for the first time in Cadenus and Vanessa, an autobiographical poem about Swift's relationship with Vanhomrigh. Swift had written the poem in 1713, but it was not published until three years after Vanhomrigh died. Vanessa has been adopted later as the name of a genus of butterfly by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1807.
Vanessa was the 71st most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007. It has been among the top 200 names for girls in the United States since 1953 and among the top 100 names for girls since 1977. It first appeared among the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States in 1950, when it appeared on the list ranked in 939th place.
In Germany Vanessa has been among the top 100 names for girls since 1976. The name became more and more popular and was the 7th most popular name for girls in the 1990s. In the following years its popularity dropped and the name is ranked in 42nd place for the decade 2000–2009.
English: name invented by Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) for his intimate friend Esther Vanhomrigh. It seems to have been derived from the first syllable of her (Dutch) surname, with the addition of the suffix -essa (perhaps influenced by the first syllable of her given name).
Short form: Nessa.
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3 September 2018
On the south side of Chicago where I’m from, the short form of Vanessa is (lil) Nessie
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