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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Vanessa

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#377

down −42 places

2025 births

813

down −125 births

All-time births

261,622

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1985
7,563 births
Best rank
#41
in 1988
First recorded
1900
#1,919 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1988
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
109 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19857,563#42Peak
  2. 19887,516#41
  3. 19867,469#43
  4. 19877,348#43
  5. 19847,156#45

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #41 in 1988 · peak births 7,563 in 1985

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

984 boys · 261,622 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Vanessa has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.