Given name & surname

Vaness

Vaness is used as a given name and a surname.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Vaness isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Vaness through the years

Babies since 1880
288
0 boys · 288 girls
Most popular year
1988
26 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0510151960198020002025Highest share 19880.0
Vaness in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1959–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 26 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 433 as a first name in 2020; 961 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Vaness’s family of names

Vaness may belong to the same name family as VANES. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Vaness’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

If you love Vaness, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Cambodian

Vanna

“golden-haired woman”

33RareEasing

>99% girls

Literary

Alyse

“noble” · “kind”

33RareEasing

>99% girls

Greek · Literary

Vanessa

“resembling a butterfly”

63FamiliarEasing

>99% girls

Spanish · Biblical

Mercedes

“wages” · “lady of mercies; refers to the Virgin Mary”

44UncommonEasing

>99% girls

 

Tess

“a harvester”

41UncommonCooling

>99% girls

 

Ashly

“ash” · “wood”

46UncommonRising fast

>99% girls

 

Jaclyn

“the supplanter”

34RareCooling

>99% girls

 

Kassie

“an unheeded prophetess”

33RareEasing

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Vaness’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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