Venessa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.
Venessa by the numbers
Venessa was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 239 babies in 1984, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Venessa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Venessa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Vanessabutterfly; invented by author James Barrie1,508 in the US (2017)
- Vinessa5 in the US (2017)
- Vanesabutterfly; a form of vanessa8 in England and Wales (2025)
- Veneciafrom Venice, the Venetian city14 in the US (2017)
- Vannessabutterfly; a form of Vanessa9 in the US (2017)
- Veneziavenice, the city9 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Venessa
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