How popular is the name Venessa?

Venessa ranks 1,941st among girls' names in US records, with 5,767 births since 1922. Over the past decade it accounts for 88.

Is Venessa a unisex name?

No. Venessa is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1984, when 239 children were given the name. It has been in use for 103 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,941 of girl names

Pronounced V IY1 IY1 N EH1 S AH0 (ARPABET)

Venessa is a girls' name, and first appears in 1922. It has been given to 5,767 children — the 1,941st most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 88 births across the past decade, against a peak of 239 in a single year. That peak was in 1984.

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Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Venessa?: Venessa ranks 1,941st among girls' names in US records, with 5,767 births since 1922. Over the past decade it accounts for 88.
Is Venessa a unisex name?: No. Venessa is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Venessa most popular?: 1984, when 239 children were given the name. It has been in use for 103 years and is still recorded as of 2024.