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Vanesa

Female#471 most common in Croatia1,263 people in Croatia
Meaning:
A literary coinage; also a butterfly genus
Origin:
English (literary)

About the name Vanesa

Name coined by Jonathan Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh; later a genus of butterflies.

Popularity with newborns

Vanesa has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.

People with this name in Croatia

1,263 people in Croatia are called Vanesa, according to the 2021 census. That is #471 among all the names in Imenko.

Where the name is found

Vanesa is recorded in 20 of Croatia's 21 counties.

Bjelovarsko-bilogorskaBrodsko-posavskaDubrovačko-neretvanskaGrad ZagrebIstarskaKarlovačkaKoprivničko-križevačkaKrapinsko-zagorskaMeđimurskaOsječko-baranjskaPožeško-slavonskaPrimorsko-goranskaSisačko-moslavačkaSplitsko-dalmatinskaVaraždinskaVirovitičko-podravskaVukovarsko-srijemskaZadarskaZagrebačkaŠibensko-kninska

Characteristics

InternationalModernModerately common

Sources

Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.