Vanessa

Literary invention; also a species of butterfly

Vanessa Origin and Meaning

Variation of Nessa

Vanessa Rank in US Top 1000

# 335 in the US

Vanessa Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 416 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Vanessa

• 335 US 2024
• 416 Nameberry 2025
• 537 England 2024
• 104 Germany 2016
• 42 Mexico 2021
• 50 Finland 2020
• 195 switzerland 2020
• 125 Poland 2020

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Famous People Named Vanessa

• Vanessa Redgrave English actress
• Vanessa Anne Hudgens American actress
• Vanessa Bell English painter; sister of novelist Virginia Woolf
• Vanessa Lynn Williams American actress and singer, Miss America 1983
• Vanessa Estelle Williams American actress
• Vanessa Kirby English actress
• Vanessa Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, British violinist
• Vanessa Joy Minnillo American TV host and actress
• Vanessa Lee Carlton American singer,songwriter
• Vanessa Zahorian American ballerina
• Vanessa Vadim French,American film producer, daughter of actress Jane Fonda
• Vanessa Alice Bensimon French graffiti artist, known as "Miss Van"
• Vanessa Beecroft Italian performance artist
• Vanessa Haydon Trump daughter,in,law to President Donald Trump
• Vanessa Marie Bryant wife of basketball player Kobe Bryant
• Vanessa Bruno French fashion designer
• Vanessa Fallon Rohanna Australian children's performer
• Vanessa Evigan American actress
• Vanessa Jo Merrell twin sister of Veronica Merrell, YouTuber, fashion designer
• Vanessa Gleason (b. 1979) American model & actress Playboy Playmate of the Month for September 1998
• Vanessa Sue DiBernardo American soccer player
• Vanessa Adriana Nadal lawyer, chemical engineer and professor, wife of Lin,Manuel Miranda.

The name Vanessa in Pop Culture

• Vanessa Weatherford Panessa Baegotti
• Vanessa Abrams character on TV's "Gossip Girl".
• Vanessa Huxtable character on TV's "The Cosby Show".
• Vanessa Bennett character on American soap "All My Children".
• Vanessa Turnbill character in 2000 movie "Cut".
• Vanessa Doofenshmirtz character on animated series "Phineas and Ferb".
• Vanessa Kensington character in the Austin Powers series.
• Vanessa character in movie "Big Daddy".
• Vanessa Loring character in movie "Juno".
• Vanessa Monroe character on TV's "The Vampire Diaries".
• Vanessa Hansen character in movie "City by the Sea".
• Vanessa Moschella character on TV's "Da Vinci's Demons".
• Vanessa character in movie "Corvette Summer".
• Vanessa Ives main character on TV's "Penny Dreadful".
• Vanessa Ursula's human form in Disney's "The Little Mermaid".
• Vanessa Pike The Baby,sitters Club character.
• Vanessa Wade Wilson's girlfriend in the movie "Deadpool".
• Vanessa Morita character on Disney's Backstage.
• Vanessa Wrigley character on TV's "Odd Mom Out".
• Vanessa character in In The Heights.
• Vanessa Santoro character in the "Fablehaven" series by Brandon Mull
• Vanessa Anne “Van” Palmer character in series "Yellowjackets"

International Variations of the name Vanessa

• Vanesa Spanish
• Venessa Spanish