A butterfly landed on my mums stomach a week before I was born and thats how I got my name because Vanessa means butterfly - its a Latin derivative.

Vanessa meaning butterfly. Vanessa is a name of a genus of butterfly so the meaning could be queen of the butterflies. They are very positive and shy at first. Also from Phanessa the mystic goddess of an ancient Greek brotherhood.

Based on our research most people would imagine a person with the name Vanessa to be. Vanessa as a girls name is pronounced va-NESS-ah. In Latin it translates to Venus the God of love.

No alternate spellings exist for this name but it has variations in other languages including Vanesa Wanesa Vanasia Vane and Vanessza. The second possible origin is that the name comes from the Greek goddess Phanessa. British actress Vanessa Redgrave.

Vanessa is one of the most common butterfly names and it means the Queen of butterflies. Many things are too complicated to explain. That Vanessa should mean butterfly becomes symbolically impossible now because the Greek for that creature is psyche which in mythology was a mere human though dabbling with loving a god From this point we can emphasize not through Psyches love but through Venus a connection with most of the preceding.

Amharic is the origin of the female name Yasamma which means butterfly Cho. Vanessa was later used as the name of a genus of butterfly. From either origin the name takes the meaning butterfly and was even used to name a genus of butterflies in the 1800s.

2 people from the United States and Nigeria agree the name Vanessa is of Greek African American origin and means Beautiful butterfly. What does Vanesa mean. A submission from Colorado US.