How popular is “Vanessa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Vanessa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Vanessa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Vanessa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Vanessa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Vanessa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Vanessa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Vanessa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1900	6	0.000013326	6		100%
1913	5	0.000004397	5		100%
1915	10	0.000005457	10		100%
1916	8	0.000004136	8		100%
1917	6	0.00000299	6		100%
1919	6	0.000002843	6		100%
1920	6	0.000002652	6		100%
1921	5	0.000002142	5		100%
1922	6	0.000002621	6		100%
1923	9	0.000003909	9		100%
1925	9	0.000003857	9		100%
1927	5	0.000002156	5		100%
1928	6	0.000002654	6		100%
1929	5	0.000002281	5		100%
1930	10	0.000004498	10		100%
1931	7	0.000003326	7		100%
1932	9	0.000004263	9		100%
1933	7	0.000003501	7		100%
1935	32	0.000015312	32		100%
1936	20	0.000009627	20		100%
1937	17	0.000007979	17		100%
1938	15	0.000006779	15		100%
1939	7	0.000003177	7		100%
1940	14	0.00000608	14		100%
1941	11	0.000004515	11		100%
1942	16	0.000005857	16		100%
1943	10	0.000003543	10		100%
1944	13	0.000004833	13		100%
1945	19	0.000007162	19		100%
1946	14	0.000004381	14		100%
1947	59	0.000016378	59		100%
1948	69	0.000019985	69		100%
1949	70	0.000020087	70		100%
1950	91	0.000025975	91		100%
1951	176	0.000047778	176		100%
1952	695	0.000182991	695		100%
1953	2007	0.000520806	2007		100%
1954	2652	0.000666213	2643	9	99%
1955	2705	0.00067371	2698	7	99%
1956	2617	0.000634726	2617		100%
1957	2387	0.000568043	2379	8	99%
1958	2754	0.000666198	2744	10	99%
1959	3134	0.000753729	3120	14	99%
1960	2720	0.00065482	2712	8	99%
1961	2773	0.000669435	2764	9	99%
1962	2251	0.000557817	2244	7	99%
1963	2032	0.000513365	2032		100%
1964	2064	0.000530918	2056	8	99%
1965	1638	0.000451806	1632	6	99%
1966	1651	0.000475018	1643	8	99%
1967	1875	0.0005523	1869	6	99%
1968	1802	0.000533387	1797	5	99%
1969	2240	0.000644544	2234	6	99%
1970	2581	0.00071565	2576	5	100%
1971	2667	0.000777017	2657	10	99%
1972	2288	0.000727968	2279	9	99%
1973	2155	0.000714312	2145	10	99%
1974	2361	0.000776645	2352	9	99%
1975	2455	0.000813077	2441	14	99%
1976	2473	0.000815015	2463	10	99%
1977	3224	0.001014955	3209	15	99%
1978	3865	0.001217756	3853	12	99%
1979	4119	0.001238052	4102	17	99%
1980	4447	0.001291041	4426	21	99%
1981	4773	0.001379729	4749	24	99%
1982	6206	0.001769118	6153	53	98%
1983	6446	0.00186121	6388	58	98%
1984	7198	0.0020632	7155	43	99%
1985	7606	0.002131063	7564	42	99%
1986	7512	0.002111846	7468	44	99%
1987	7394	0.002050691	7348	46	99%
1988	7588	0.002053562	7516	72	98%
1989	7014	0.00182445	6961	53	98%
1990	6441	0.001629611	6409	32	99%
1991	5953	0.001528266	5925	28	99%
1992	6109	0.001590358	6079	30	99%
1993	5920	0.001570176	5890	30	99%
1994	5570	0.001498257	5552	18	99%
1995	5420	0.001480003	5404	16	99%
1996	5763	0.001580118	5746	17	99%
1997	5816	0.001604082	5796	20	99%
1998	5843	0.001588546	5830	13	100%
1999	5297	0.001433999	5287	10	100%
2000	5146	0.00136141	5134	12	100%
2001	4680	0.001250204	4672	8	100%
2002	4460	0.001193059	4455	5	100%
2003	4358	0.001146143	4352	6	100%
2004	4359	0.001140824	4350	9	100%
2005	4103	0.001067143	4095	8	100%
2006	4175	0.001055309	4169	6	100%
2007	4455	0.001114396	4447	8	100%
2008	4038	0.001027307	4032	6	100%
2009	3523	0.000922209	3523		100%
2010	2893	0.000782793	2887	6	100%
2011	2626	0.000717919	2620	6	100%
2012	2553	0.000698043	2553		100%
2013	2102	0.000576575	2095	7	99%
2014	1932	0.000521264	1927	5	99%
2015	1729	0.000467182	1729		100%
2016	1663	0.000453294	1663		100%
2017	1521	0.000425312	1521		100%
2018	1378	0.000391934	1378		100%
2019	1224	0.000352643	1224		100%
2020	1383	0.000414	1383		100%
2021	1226	0.000361871	1226		100%
2022	1026	0.000303269	1026		100%
2023	1012	0.00030563	1012		100%
2024	933	0.000280306	933		100%

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