Vanesa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Vanessa in GR Greece.

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●

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• Czech given name71K records spelled Vanesa67 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Croatia, Spain

  Languages: Czech, Polish, Croatian

  Also written Vanessa, Ванесса, Ванеса, Ванэсса, Ванэса

• Catalan given name49K records spelled Vanesa5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Belgium

  Languages: Catalan, French

  Also written Vanésa, Vänësa, Vànesa

• Lao given name4.3K records spelled Vanesa47 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Philippines

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Vanessa, Vannessa, วาเนสซ่า, วาเนสซา, Wanessa

• Indonesian given name3.1K records spelled Vanesa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Spain, Philippines, Peru

  Also written 'Vanesa

• Hungarian given name1.9K records spelled Vanesa5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovenia, Finland, Spain, Argentina

  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●

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 word·Tēzaurs.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 73 years between 1953–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Vanesa Romerob. 1978ESSpanish presenter, model and television presenter
• Vanesa Majab. 1978ARactress
• Vanesa Martínb. 1980ESSpanish singer and songwriter
• Vanesa Tomasinob. 1981SVSalvadorian actress
• Vanesa Amorósb. 1982ESSpanish handball player
• Tania Rincónb. 1986MXnot in their usual nameMexican TV presenter
• Vanesa Restrepob. 1987COColombian actress and model
• Vanesa Furlanettob. 1987ARArgentine tennis player
• Vanesa Santanab. 1990ARArgentine footballer
• Vanesa Kaladzinskayab. 1992BYBelarusian wrestler

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 654 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vanesa?

We estimate roughly 820 thousand people bear Vanesa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.

In which country does Vanesa have the most bearers?

Vanesa is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled vanesa.

How common is Vanesa compared with other names?

In Argentina, Vanesa is the 123rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

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 does the name Vanesa mean?

Recorded meaning: Krsna (N)