Vanêssa

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Vanêssa is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Coined by Jonathan Swift for a lady friend named Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh.

rarermore common
  • COColombia1 in 387◐
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 411
  • BRBrazil1 in 532

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈815K ●

across 12 countries

#266 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
448 ●

1.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 532 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

VanêssaLatin · Portuguese●6.8M records
ונסהHebrew · Hebrew●2.9K records
ᲕანესსაGeorgian · Georgian●15 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Vanessa in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain and 18 more, Vannessa in FR France, AT Austria, PL Poland and 2 more and ונסה in IL Israel.

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

Meaning & origin●

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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Vanêssa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#60397,874351K rec.1 in 532419KVanessa248
US United States#810238,897299K rec.1 in 1.4K239KVanessa448
PE Peru#131230,034176K rec.——Vanessa101
MX Mexico#261181,274122K rec.—267Vanessa226
VE Venezuela#154169,668100K rec.——Vanessa99
CO Colombia#67160,71034K rec.—2Vanessa177
CL Chile#18887,1777.6K rec.—2Vanessa134
AR Argentina#62482,20047K rec.—47Vanessa98
FR France—80,810△603 rec.1 in 84081KVannessa81
SV El Salvador#4665,96543K rec.——Vanessa61
ES Spain#14944,78595K rec.1 in 1.1K45KVanessa174
PH Philippines—19,87027K rec.——Vanessa111

Roughly 398K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 532). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Portuguese419K100%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese418,983100%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Vanêssa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name9 records spelled Vanêssa3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Vanessa, Vânessa

  • English given name3 records spelled Vanêssa40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Vanessa, 'Vanessa, Vánessá, Vąnessą, Vanéssa

  • Spanish given name1 records spelled Vanêssa103 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English

    Also written Vanesa, Vanessa, Βανεσα, Vannessa, Vänësä

5 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.

Evidence●

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Vanêssa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—419K#107

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vanêssa?
We estimate roughly 815 thousand people bear Vanêssa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Vanêssa have the most bearers?
We estimate about 398 thousand people bear Vanêssa in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vanessa.
How common is Vanêssa compared with other names?
In Brazil, Vanêssa is the 60th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Vanêssa mean?
Recorded meaning: Coined by Jonathan Swift for a lady friend named Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 60th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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