# Venessa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/venessa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,767 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,767 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 28, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 23 | 6,081 |
| 2010 | 21 | 6,369 |
| 2011 | 18 | 7,099 |
| 2012 | 14 | 8,600 |
| 2013 | 16 | 7,726 |
| 2014 | 12 | 9,489 |
| 2015 | 21 | 6,225 |
| 2016 | 6 | 16,110 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,562 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,772 |
| 2019 | 8 | 12,372 |
| 2020 | 8 | 12,075 |
| 2022 | 8 | 12,171 |
| 2023 | 11 | 9,566 |
| 2024 | 6 | 15,129 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,683 |
| 1997 | 5 | 2,738 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2009 | 6 | 3,422 |
| 2010 | 6 | 3,533 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.