Ivana
Ivana was given to 217 girls in 2025, #1,102 among girls’ names; 8,042 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,900 Americans named Ivana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ivana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ivana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ivana is “a female given name.”
From various Slavic languages, such as Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian Ивана (Ivana). Doublet of Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ivana?
#1,102 among girls’ names, 2025
Ivana rose from #1,305 in 2015 to #1,102 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.14 per 1,000.
266 babies in 2010, the peak
Ivana peaked in 2010, when 266 girls were given it, #963 among girls’ names. The 217 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 217 | #1,102 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 226 | #1,092 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 223 | #1,099 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 231 | #1,084 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,185 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 223 | #1,095 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 211 | #1,143 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 200 | #1,194 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 191 | #1,245 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 209 | #1,194 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 184 | #1,305 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 163 | #1,404 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 184 | #1,283 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 184 | #1,292 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 228 | #1,081 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 266 | #963 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 177 | #1,350 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 199 | #1,259 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 239 | #1,090 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,318 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 163 | #1,341 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 154 | #1,364 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 155 | #1,326 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 156 | #1,264 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 176 | #1,172 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 255 | #863 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 206 | #995 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 207 | #975 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 208 | #950 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 163 | #1,110 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 167 | #1,066 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 164 | #1,097 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 181 | #1,020 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 225 | #879 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 182 | #1,010 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 231 | #851 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 108 | #1,390 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,709 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,864 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,236 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,454 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,447 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,004 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,974 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,207 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,668 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,020 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,814 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,572 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,269 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,534 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,268 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,589 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,289 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,686 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,350 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,048 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,375 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,141 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,311 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,676 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,029 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,668 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,027 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,201 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,303 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,516 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,960 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ivana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ivana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ivana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ivana, and how old are they?
7,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,042 Americans ever recorded as Ivana. The median Ivana alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 8,816 people named Ivana (8,786 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,672 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 78 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 373 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,680 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,650 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ivana born?
The states with the most babies named Ivana are California, Texas and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 32 | #898 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 29 | #992 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 18 | #891 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 15 | #692 | 0.6× |
| New York | 13 | #1,113 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 10 | #645 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #881 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 7 | #855 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,193 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,310 | 0.8× |
Where Ivana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ivana is most over-represented in California: since 1943 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ivana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,035 babies since 1880, Ivana is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 217 of their 837 babies (26%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ivana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ivana and names like it
- Compare Ivana and IvannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIvana peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ivana since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Ivana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ivana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.