Name meaning & stats
Janessa
Janessa. 14,722 US babies since 1940, peak 2009.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
A modern coinage.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2009
14,722 US babies were named Janessa between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Janessa (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 81% of the family
- Janessa 81%
- Janasia 7%
- Janissa 3%
- Janecia 2%
- Janisa 2%
- Janesa 2%
- Jannessa 1%
- Janicia 1%
- Janaysia 1%
- Jahnessa 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2009)