Vannessa
Recorded 1951–2022 · United States
Vannessa was most popular in 1987, when 123 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,966 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,231 people named Vannessa.
Vannessa over time
How old is the name Vannessa?
Vannessa first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1951, which makes it about 74 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 72 of the 75 years since.
How many people are named Vannessa?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,231 American births named Vannessa between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,066 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Vannessa in 2025?
Vannessa was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Vannessa getting more or less popular?
Vannessa is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 17 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Vannessa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Vannessa is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,231 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Vannessa?
Roughly 3,066 Americans named Vannessa are alive today — 95% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 38 years old, and half are between 29 and 52.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Vannessa is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org