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Vanessa

Female#596 most common in Croatia777 people in Croatia
Meaning:
A literary coinage; also a butterfly genus
Origin:
English (literary)

About the name Vanessa

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

Popularity with newborns

Vanessa 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

777 people in Croatia are called Vanessa, according to the 2021 census. That is #596 among all the names in Imenko.

Where the name is found

Vanessa is recorded in 19 of Croatia's 21 counties.

Bjelovarsko-bilogorskaBrodsko-posavskaGrad ZagrebIstarskaKarlovačkaKoprivničko-križevačkaKrapinsko-zagorskaLičko-senjskaMeđimurskaOsječko-baranjskaPožeško-slavonskaPrimorsko-goranskaSisačko-moslavačkaSplitsko-dalmatinskaVaraždinskaVirovitičko-podravskaVukovarsko-srijemskaZadarskaZagrebačka

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.