girls:
5.8k births since 1922
#2191 (62nd percentile)
overall:
5.8k births since 1922
#3579 (54th percentile)
The name Venessa is the #3,579 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,761 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 53.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,191 (61.7% percentile) for all time with 5,761 births since 1922.
Venessa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (first recorded for girls in 1922). Birth data for Venessa is available in 78 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Venessa reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 29.6% percentile (ranked #555) with 133 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 133 births per million (ranked 29.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Venessa ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 4.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Venessa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Venessa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.2% confident that Venessa is pronounced as vuh-NEH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is veh-NEH-suh, at 10.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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