Where is Vanessa from?

My guess is...

French Guiana

flag of French Guiana

4%

Germany

flag of Germany

4%

Portugal

flag of Portugal

3%

I'm 98% certain Vanessa is Female.

According to a dataset of 119360, the average Vanessa is around 39 years old.


Share your results
facebook sharetwitter sharereddit sharepinterest sharelinkedin share

Learn about the name Vanessa

Meaning of the name Vanessa

Invented by author Jonathan Swift for his 1726 poem Cadenus and Vanessa [1]. He arrived at it by rearranging the initial syllables of the first name and surname of Esther Vanhomrigh, his close friend. Vanessa was later used as the name of a genus of butterfly. It was a rare given name until the mid-20th century, at which point it became fairly popular.

Characteristics of the name Vanessa

OriginsGerman, English, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese
Pronouncedvə-NEHS-ə(English)
GenderFeminine
Traitsnatural, complex, refined, serious, formal, upper class, strange, wholesome

How do we know this about Vanessa

(and is it secret spies?)

We use a combination of data from the internet, and our own Machine Learning models to make these predictions.
In a gist, we use a Machine Learning model trained on a diverse global dataset of 100m+ names, and use it to predict different traits for a person based on first name!
NameGuessr guesses a person's nationality, age, and gender based on their name. We also try to give insightful info around the name's origin, name meaning, and name pronounciation.