Girl
Vanessa
Vanessa is a girl's name meaning "Coined name". It has cooled since its 1980s peak, though it is still chosen today. As things stand now, it is widely recognized. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
LiteraryCoined name
LiteraryPopularized by Jonathan Swift
Births by decade
1900s
6
1910s
35
1920s
51
1930s
124
1940s
295
1950s
19,211
1960s
21,050
1970s
28,194
1980s
66,178
1990s
58,122
2000s
43,274
2010s
16,981
Peaked in the 1980s · 253,521 total U.S. births since 1900