# Vanya (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vanya/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Russian |
| Meaning | “johnny”, “john” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Vania |
| US babies named this | 1,279 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 1,279 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 137, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Romanization of Russian and Ukrainian Ва́ня (Vánja, “Johnny”), a diminutive of Ива́н (Iván), Іван (Ivan, “John”)

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 4,798 |
| 2012 | 38 | 4,042 |
| 2013 | 21 | 6,239 |
| 2014 | 28 | 5,019 |
| 2015 | 34 | 4,293 |
| 2016 | 44 | 3,582 |
| 2017 | 49 | 3,299 |
| 2018 | 46 | 3,437 |
| 2019 | 72 | 2,480 |
| 2020 | 83 | 2,194 |
| 2021 | 80 | 2,307 |
| 2022 | 81 | 2,317 |
| 2023 | 59 | 2,888 |
| 2024 | 67 | 2,633 |
| 2025 | 75 | 2,408 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,936 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,649 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,541 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,962 |
| 2022 | 7 | 3,148 |
| 2023 | 13 | 2,063 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,894 |
| 2025 | 19 | 1,584 |

## People named Vanya

- Vanya Petkova, Bulgarian poet

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.