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Vanesa vs Vannie

American parents have registered 6,544 Vanesas since 1880, against 1,021 Vannies. Vanesa is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vanesa against Vannie, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vanesa Vannie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 142 years in which either name was published, Vannie for 72 years and Vanesa for 70 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Vanesa Vannie
Total US births 6,5441,021
Most in one year 27130
Babies in 2025 28under 5
Estimated living today 6,400160
Median age today 2678
Peak year 20021918
Best rank 850th girls1,645th girls
Rank in 2025 4,758thunranked
First recorded 19531880
Girls / boys 6,539 / 5830 / 191

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vannies alive today are over 78; half the Vanesas are over 26. That is 52 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vanesa and Vannie.