Comments for the name Vanessa

Though this name was a literary invention, it has won fame due to British actress Vanessa Redgrave (b. 1937). However, it knew great popularity in Spain through singer Manolo Escobar's adopted daughter, born in 1978.

A famous bearer is the gothic singer Vanessa Paradis.

In Hebrew Vanessa means star.

Vanessa does not mean "star" in Hebrew. Where do you people get this stuff?

In response to whether or not it means star in Hebrew, it sort of does, in a way. Technically Vanessa has no real meaning. But because the "ess" part was taken from the name Esther, it can be attributed, though not very correctly, Esther's meaning, and one of the posible meanings (though according to this website it's Persian) is "star."

My name is Vanessa, and I love it. It's a really beautiful name, and it suits me!

A few famous people who have this name are: Vanessa Williams and Vanessa Redgrave.

My name is Vanessa, and I used to like it when I was little, but now that I'm a teenager I think the name is too babyish and go by Van instead.

Virginia Woolf had a sister named Vanessa. (1879-1961)
This is another favorite name of mine. I love that it was created by an author. I just love it!

I love the name Vanessa! I used to hate my name when I was younger. Now that I'm older I love it because you don't hear it every day. And it is not a childish name.

My name is Vanessa and I like it a lot. It is not too common and isn't mispronounced that often. I think that it is very pretty and it's not childish or to old-lady-like. :o)

What about Vanessa Carlton?

Vanessa was the name of one of the daughters on The Cosby Show.

My old best friend's name and I never liked it and I still don't, I just don't think it sounds pretty.

One of senator John Kerry's daughters is named Vanessa.

One time in my baby book I read it means butterfly.

Vanessa is a beautiful and sophisticated name. I love it. It is no wonder it has remained popular for so many years. At least not too popular thankfully.

My name is Vanessa, I find it annoying that people feel the need to shorten it (Ness, Nessa, Nessie, V, Van) Be proud of the name Vanessa. A butterfly is a beautiful creature, let the name Vanessa be seen as being the same.

Listen to the German pronunciation of Vanessa here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

Vanessa appeared on the top 1000 list in the 1950's. Its most popular year was the 1980's where it ranked 47.

I find that Vanessa is a popular name for anyone in the field of entertaining. Actresses, singers, musicians and transvestites (kid you not). It's sexy and sweet at the same time.

Vanessa Mae is a fantastic violinist.

My name is Vanessa, I just want to add, that here in Mexico we use "Vane" (vah-né) as the short name of Vanessa.

My middle name is Vanessa. I used to like it better than my first name but not anymore, almost all my friends call me Vanessa but I prefer the nicknames that my friends have given me: Vani and Vane (van-eh).

Vanessa Anne Hudgens is a beautiful singer and actor who is very sweet. She just released her first album and she played as Gabriela on High School Musical. She will be on the upcoming sequel also, and she is also participating in the High School Musical Tour. She's so amazing and talented!

Vanessa Anne Hudgens didn't play Gabriela in High School Musical, she played Gabriella.

Although I normally place high value in the meaning of names, I really do love "Vanessa". I have not met too many, but all those whom I have are always beautiful, kind girls. The name has a elegant sound to it, and since now I know it has the association with butterflies, that just makes the name all the more greater.

Vanessa is the name of one of the goddesses in Lynne Ewing's book series "Daughters of the Moon." She can turn invisible.

Vanessa is the name I really, really hate. It makes me think of a vain, smug, nasty and arrogant little girl.

A famous bearer is mtv host Vanessa Minnillo.

Pretty name! It is not too common anymore.

Am I really the only one associating this name with the villain of Disney's "The Little Mermaid"!?

Although a pretty name, I can't think of anything but Usrula the Seawitch in her human form. And Vanessa LOOKED way scarier than Usrula, I remember. Shame on such a nice-sounding name!

Also a girls name in Slovenia, though Vanesa is much more popular.

Slovak model Andrea Verešová and Daniel Volopich have a daughter Vanessa Volopichová, born at 8 July 2007, Prague, Czechia. She weighed 3,5 kg and she sized 49 cm.

One of the daughters of Bob Geldof is named Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel VANESSA Geldof. Nothing less.

My name is Vanessa and believe me at first I hated it! I couldn't stand it to the point of changing by deed poll!

As I grew older though and learnt the meaning of the name I grew to like it and now I think it's quite pretty. It's not too old sounding, and it doesn't make me sound like a child. So I backed out of the idea of a deed poll.

Very hard to mispronounce although people do mispell it quite often. But oh well.

Considering my mum wanted to name me Tina I am quite overjoyed at my unusual name as I don't hear it often. Nessa for short is very irritating (especially when being shouted out by mother-in-law) but you get used to it and just answer out of habit.

So big thumbs up for Vanessa!

I've never liked the name, but after hearing it from the star Vanessa Anne Hudgens, this hate lessened to the point where Vanessa is one of my favourite names! But now that the nude pictures of Vanessa Hudgens came out, I don't know if I would name one of my kids this name anymore.

This is my name and I love this name. My mom told me she chose this name because she had liked the name since she was a teenager. She also told me that some people she knew named their daughters this because they liked how the name sounded. I would recommend people to put this to a baby girl.

My name is Vanessa Anne, and I've been very happy with my name. I find it interesting how my name began, and as a biology teacher, I love that it has been used for a genus of butterflies. I've also been very comfortable with the many nicknames that friends and family have given to me that I really like: V, Nessie, Nessa, etc. I also think it sounds nice as "Aunt Vanessa" or "Auntie V".

Growing up, I enjoyed having a unique name. However, I did have a friend in middle school who was also a Vanessa Anne, which was really unusual. Another reason it was a good name to have growing up was because it is difficult to rhyme and use to make fun. As an adult, many people tell me that I have a beautiful name, which is always nice. I think it can sound professional yet fun too.

I recommend "Vanessa" as a great name for a girl, who will proudly be able to carry it as a woman.

I don't really like this name. It is too long for your daughter to have to learn to write.

I've liked this name up until Vanessa Anne Hudgens came into the spotlight.

The name doesn't sound quite as cutesy and girly as Clarissa and Carissa, but it does have that über-girly and youthful sound to it.

It was gorgeous, but the Vanessa Hudgins thing put me off it.

Such a smug and pretentious name. Ugh.

I love the name, it's beautiful and I love the meaning of it butterfly.

Vanessa is a character in the Broadway musical, "In the Heights". She's originally played by Karen Olivo.

I'm so sorry if this offends anyone, but I absolutely HATE the name Vanessa! I love most names, but Vanessa is the one that I hate the most. Everyone says it's so pretty and elegant, but I'm sorry, I disagree completely. Not only that, I don't even understand how anyone could like it, much less love it! It's a horrid name! And, again, I am very, very sorry if I offend anyone with this message. And also, I have, don't laugh, lepidopterophobia, which is the fear of butterflies. And isn't that what Vanessa means? That's just another reason for me to hate this name.

I don't like made-up names and didn't like Vanessa until I saw a documentary on Captain Cook, hosted by the geographer Vanessa Collingridge, a lovely slender intelligent young woman with lots of princess-like golden spirally curled hair! The strident Vanessa Redgrave and Vanessa Feltz (a British TV personality) put me off this name until the charming Ms Collingridge redressed the balance!
However, I think Vanora is a more beautiful and elegant name, deserving of more attention.

I love Vanessa, it is so elegant and very beautiful to say and write.

Vanesa is variant of Vanessa. Pet form of Vanessa/Vanesa: Vane, Tessa.

The name is pretty cool. I actually prefer the variant Vessa.

Wow! I love that "Vanessa" was made up by a poet! That makes it so much more beautiful.

I like this name a lot! It's soooo pretty to hear!

Vanessa is originally a Greek word meaning butterfly. It is from the same root word for our words evanescent and vanish. The root vanescera means: to vanish. Butterflies have a tendency to vanish.

This is my name and I love it, nickname is Vane or Nessa but yeah a great name for a girl.

Vanessa is a beautiful name. It sounds kind of Italian.

I love this name, beautiful.

I love the name Vanessa! It's so pretty!

The name Vanessa is also widely used in the Portuguese language, both in Brazil and in Portugal (I don't know about the Portuguese-speaking African countries, but I'd assume it's an ordinary name there, too).

Vanessa Doofenshmirtz is a character on the Disney animated series "Phineas and Ferb."

This is my name - ever since I found out it doesn't actually mean anything (and was simply invented out of midair), I've grown a dislike of it. Ugh.

Now I'm jealous of everyone else; at least your names actually MEAN something, however negative. I really wish I could get my name legally changed to one with a real meaning.

Very pretty name!

I have been intrigued by the name Vanessa since the 1950's. Now I have a real reason to love this name, besides it's sophisticated sound. That is because of that wonderful and talented Violinist, Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, who goes by Vanessa-Mae professionally. A child prodigy who started playing professionally at 10 years old and who is now 32 and still playing in concerts beautifully, both pop and classical.

I really like this name. It has a classic feel to it like Audrey or Eloise. I've seen it spelled Vanesha (seriously!) which I thought was terribly ugly. Vanessa is a lovely name.

This is my name, and I like it. Even though there is likely to be one more Vanessa in class, it's a name that isn't heard everyday. I recommend it.

English singer V.V. Brown's birth name is Vanessa Brown.

I don't know why, but this name reminds me of nasal problems. It's still pretty though.

A (somewhat) famous bearer is one of Sybil Dorsett's identities, Vanessa, in the movie Sybil. Vanessa was supposedly a 12-year-old girl who could play the piano.

My name is Vanessa, and my friends call me Vessa, Ane (Ann), and Anessa.

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was a British painter and designer. Her sister was Viginia Woolf.

Vanessa is also largely used in PORTUGAL. [noted -ed]

A famous bearer of the name is the Portuguese athlete Vanessa Fernandes, former triathlon European and World champion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Fernandes

I think it sounds rather snotty, but I would find it more tolerable if it was spelled Vannessa and given in honour of Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco.

Vanessa de Freitas, known by the name "Malana", was a contestant on Brazil's Next Top Model, Cycle 2.
This additionally adds to Portuguese usage.

American actress Vanessa Marano (born 1992 in Los Angeles, California).

American figure skater Vanessa Lam (born 1995 in Bellflower, California).

Vanessa Kensington is the name of the "by the book" partner/love interest in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). She was played by Elizabeth Hurley.

Vanessa is one of those names that sounds like a name for popular, snotty girls who only care about themselves. It just doesn't sound too right.