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Vanessa
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Male: 1 country
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Female: 4 countries
Coined by Jonathan Swift as a pseudonym for a lady friend named Esther Vanhomrigh (or Van Homrigh), an Irish woman of Dutch descent, by taking the Dutch preposition van from her surname and adding -essa (perhaps influenced by the first syllable of Esther).
Etymology: Wiktionary (CC-BY-SA)
Name Variants & Related
- Vanéssa Variant with diacritics
- Vanessah Derived from Vanessa
- Vanessaanne Derived from Vanessa
- Vanessamarie Derived from Vanessa
- Vaness Root name
Popularity by Country
Vanessa
Male Rank #13941
Female Rank #335
Popularity Over Time
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