Recorded 1922–2024 · United States
Venessa was most popular in 1984, when 239 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,230 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 5,767 people named Venessa.
Venessa first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1922, which makes it about 103 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 79 of the 104 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 5,767 American births named Venessa 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 5,457 are estimated to be alive today.
Venessa 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.
Venessa is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 16 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.
Across the whole record Venessa is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 5,767 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.
Roughly 5,457 Americans named Venessa are alive today — 95% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 44 years old, and half are between 37 and 53.
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.
A variant of Vanessa · English · coined by Jonathan Swift
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