girls:
881 births since 1920
#4835 (15th percentile)
overall:
881 births since 1920
#6858 (11th percentile)
The name Vernessa is the #6,858 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 881 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 11.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,835 (15.4% percentile) for all time with 881 births since 1920.
Vernessa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (first recorded for girls in 1920). Birth data for Vernessa is available in 42 out of the 75 years between 1920 and 1994. 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, Vernessa reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 8.2% percentile (ranked #708) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 33 births per million (ranked 8.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vernessa".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Vernessa is pronounced as ver-NEH-suh, which has 3 syllables.
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