Vanna
Vanna was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,930 among girls’ names; 2,068 Americans have been recorded with it since 1905 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Vanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 10 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vanna is “a female given name from the Slavic languages.” Its etymology gives the sense “God is gracious” (literally).
From Slavic Vanna, from Ivana (Ѝвана) and Ivanna (Ива́нна), ultimately from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, and Sinead.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vanna?
#2,930 among girls’ names, 2025
Vanna rose from #3,253 in 2015 to #2,930 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.6 to 36.1 per million.
122 babies in 1986, the peak
Vanna peaked in 1986, when 122 babies were given it (111 girls, #1,240 among girls’ names). The 58 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,930 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,814 | 24.7 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,636 | 26.8 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,411 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,609 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,334 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,331 | 28.6 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,198 | 30.0 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,543 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,225 | 28.8 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,253 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,259 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,996 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,286 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,235 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,614 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,077 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,784 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,711 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,849 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,591 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,730 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,469 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,419 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,716 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,464 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,203 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,561 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 21 | #5,000 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,298 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,963 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,432 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,815 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,765 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,318 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,996 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,141 | 31.5 |
| 1988 | 58 | #2,044 | 32.6 |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,496 | 50.0 |
| 1986 | 111 | #1,240 | 64.7 |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,664 | 41.3 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,466 | 23.2 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,801 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,199 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,108 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,170 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,352 | 4.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,439 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,224 | 4.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,268 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,758 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,452 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 12 | #4,003 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #4,001 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,759 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,203 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,371 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,919 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,179 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,767 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,252 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #5,001 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,540 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,704 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,770 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,404 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,485 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,991 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,592 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,588 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,617 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 11 | #3,024 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,601 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,236 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,940 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,900 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,312 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,415 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,143 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,168 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,383 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,545 | 7.5 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,524 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,756 | 5.0 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,342 | 8.2 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,624 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,404 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,807 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,930 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,255 | 6.0 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,406 | 9.0 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,405 | 15.0 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,909 | 20.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,068 Americans recorded as Vanna, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 58 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vanna, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,068 Americans ever recorded as Vanna. The median Vanna alive today is 29 years old; half are between 10 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 2,563 people named Vanna (2,302 women and girls, 261 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,630 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 44 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 169 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 668 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 318 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 618 |
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 Vanna born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 6 | #1,521 | 0.3× |
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 Vanna 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, Vanna is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 358 babies (16%), the fourth 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 Vanna and names like it
- Compare Vanna and VaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sVanna peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Vanna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Vanna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with VMost given first.