Ness (2)

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Short form of VANESSA.

VANESSA   female   English, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch
Invented by author Jonathan Swift for his poem 'Cadenus and Vanessa' (1726). 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.
FULL FORMS
ENGLISH: Vanessa
EQUIVALENTS
CZECH: Vanesa
DUTCH: Vanessa
ENGLISH: Nessa
GERMAN: Vanessa
ITALIAN: Vanessa
PORTUGUESE: Vanessa
SLOVAK: Vanesa
OTHER FORMS
ENGLISH: Janessa