The meaning of the name Vanessa is "butterfly". The origin of the name is "Greek". The name Vanessa is mostly used as a girls name.
\v(a)-nessa, van(es)-sa\
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Vanessa is a very popular first name for girls (#195) but a really uncommon last name. Users of our site ranked the name with a 5.0 (1 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this girls name above or write a comment on the name Vanessa.
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The year 1988 was for Vanessa a very good year. In that year there were 9826 births with the name Vanessa. Find out if Vanessa is in the top 100 girls names 1988 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!
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