"Form of Vanessa"
The name Vinessa is commonly a female name from the "English" origin.
Vinessa is a respelling of Vanessa, with the second letter changed from e to i and the same pronunciation pattern kept. Vanessa itself was coined by Jonathan Swift for his 1726 poem Cadenus and Vanessa and passed from there into English given-name use. Vinessa is recorded in US birth records from 1956, well after Vanessa was established.
Vanessa means "Butterfly".
The pronunciation of Vinessa is vih-NESS-uh.
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