Vanessa

Invented by author Jonathan Swift for his 1726 poem Cadenus and Vanessa [1] . He arrived at it by rearranging the initial syllables of the first name and surname of Esther Vanhomrigh, his close friend [2] . 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.

formal upper class natural wholesome refined strange serious

1. Page at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Rev._Jonathan_Swift/Volume_7/Cadenus_and_Vanessa.
2. Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford, 1990, page 329.

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