Vanessa Name Meaning, Pronunciation, and History
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The meaning of the name "vanessa" is "butterfly", and is used often for "girls".
Vanessa Name Details
The name Vanessa was created by the poet Jonathan Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh, his close friend and a woman he loved. He invented the name by rearranging the initial syllables of her last name, Vanhomrigh, and the name Vanessa gained popularity after being used in his poem 'Cadenus and Vanessa'.
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