Vania
Vania was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,858 among girls’ names; 2,992 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,930 Americans named Vania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vania mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Vania is “a female given name, variant of Vânia”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vania?
#2,858 among girls’ names, 2025
Vania fell from #2,844 in 2015 to #2,858 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 34.7 to 37.3 per million.
153 babies in 2007, the peak
Vania peaked in 2007, when 153 girls were given it, #1,516 among girls’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,858 | 37.3 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,854 | 36.4 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,580 | 27.4 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,953 | 34.8 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,846 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,928 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 79 | #2,304 | 47.1 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,779 | 36.4 |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,352 | 45.2 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,735 | 36.1 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,844 | 34.7 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,884 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,406 | 43.3 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,707 | 37.5 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,794 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,867 | 34.3 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,589 | 39.2 |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,075 | 52.4 |
| 2007 | 153 | #1,516 | 79.6 |
| 2006 | 72 | #2,553 | 37.9 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,575 | 36.3 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,325 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,522 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,007 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,084 | 25.5 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,210 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,497 | 32.7 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,968 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,195 | 36.2 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,307 | 33.1 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,478 | 29.6 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,289 | 32.5 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,169 | 34.3 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,750 | 46.1 |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,006 | 36.8 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,458 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 61 | #2,065 | 33.1 |
| 1988 | 77 | #1,683 | 43.2 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,096 | 30.5 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,113 | 29.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,446 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,844 | 19.0 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,907 | 18.0 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,644 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,336 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,319 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,328 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,799 | 19.6 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,261 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,532 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,409 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,830 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,749 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,744 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,059 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,240 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,950 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,763 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,438 | 4.8 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,786 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,740 | 3.2 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,980 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,372 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,055 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vania, and how old are they?
2,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,992 Americans ever recorded as Vania. The median Vania alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 4,105 people named Vania (4,064 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,626 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 286 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 784 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 812 |
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 Vania born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,319 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,195 | 1.3× |
Where Vania is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vania is most over-represented in California: since 1950 it was given 1.9 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 Vania 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 9,268 babies since 1880, Vania is the most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 358 babies (17%), the third 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vania
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 Vania and names like it
- Compare Vania and VannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sVania peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vania since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Vania: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Vania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Vania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.