Vana
Vana was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,323 among girls’ names; 558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vana?
#8,323 among girls’ names, 2025
Vana entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,323 in 2025.
22 babies in 1948, the peak
Vana peaked in 1948, when 22 girls were given it, #2,121 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,323 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,118 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,558 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,476 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,366 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,063 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,688 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,370 | 5.3 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,798 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,990 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 12 | #9,574 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,875 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,369 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,302 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,376 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,944 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,991 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,959 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,256 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,326 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,732 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,461 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,162 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,211 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,319 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,489 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,443 | 6.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,106 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,144 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,407 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,349 | 4.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,661 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,803 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,250 | 4.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,448 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,602 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 12 | #4,002 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,222 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,506 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,812 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,064 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,893 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,895 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,408 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,946 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,590 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #3,031 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,309 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,528 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,987 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,121 | 13.0 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,685 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,649 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,365 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,124 | 7.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,981 | 4.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,222 | 5.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,427 | 7.7 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,832 | 4.0 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,263 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vana, and how old are they?
An estimated 463 Americans named Vana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 16 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 676 people named Vana (649 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 439 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,461 babies since 1880, Vana is the fifth most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 371 babies (3.5%), the seventh most given that year.
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.
More about Vana and names like it
- Compare Vana and VaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sVana peaked in 1948.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vana since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Vana.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vana alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.