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Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
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a brush-footed butterfly
Image by Arnstein Rønning,[1] License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA |
1) English fantasy name invented by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) for his intimate friend Esther Vanhomrigh. It seems to have been derivated from the first syllable of her Dutch surname and the name ending -essa, possibly influenced by the first syllable of her given name. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
2) Vanessa is also a genus of brush-footed butterflies [4]
That name might derive from
- The given name (1)
- From Φάνης (Phanes), the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life in the Greek mythology whose name means 'appearing', 'shining'
Related Names
See also Nessa, Janessa
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Vanessa
|
Genitive: |
Vanessas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Vanessa
|
Genitive: |
Vanessan
|
Partitive: |
Vanessaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Vanessa
|
Genitive: |
Vanessas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Vanessa
|
Genitive: |
Vanessas
|
Name Days
Finland
|
25 February
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
25 February
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 19 people were named Vanessa (percentage of first or only given name: 32 %) [10]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[12] |
|
3100 |
4043 |
3100 |
4041 |
0 |
2 |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
3101 |
n.a. |
3101 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[14] |
|
1043 |
n.a. |
1043 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Iceland[15] |
|
32 |
47 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[16] |
|
5 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[17] |
|
1107 |
n.a. |
1107 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [12][14][17][13]
References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Arnstein Rønning, source & license
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no