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Vanessa

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

a brush-footed butterfly
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

Vanesa ♀
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Wanesa ♀
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Vanessa ♀
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Wanessa ♀
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Vanesse ♀
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Vannessa ♀
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Venessa ♀
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Wenessa ♀
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See also Nessa, Janessa

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Vanessa
Genitive: Vanessas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Vanessa
Genitive: Vanessan
Partitive: Vanessaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Vanessa
Genitive: Vanessas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Vanessa
Genitive: Vanessas

Name Days

Finland Finland

25 February

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) 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

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[12]
3100 4043 3100 4041 0 2
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 3101
n.a.
 3101 0 0
Denmark Denmark[14]
1043
n.a.
 1043
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
32 47
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
5 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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

Name statistics for Vanessa (f) Sources: [12][14][17][13]


References

  1. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Arnstein Rønning, source & license
  2. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  3. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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