Vanya
Vanya reached its high-water mark in 2020 at number 2,170, and has been recorded 1,279 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,387th. About 1,300 Vanyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vanya
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,279
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2020
- Best rank
- 2,170th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,387th
- First recorded
- 1955
How old the living Vanyas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,279 babies given the name since 1955, about 1,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 870 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Russian, Ukrainian
Romanization of ru, uk Ва́ня (“Johnny”), a diminutive of Ива́н, Іван (“John”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Vanyas
- Vanya Dermendzhieva (born 1958)Olympic medalist in basketball
People named Vanya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vanya is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vanya is most concentrated in California (5.3×), Texas (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2020
The most popular girls’ names the year Vanya peaked:
Vanya elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Vanya | 137 | 1,584th |
| Switzerland girls | Vanya | 20 | 1,209th |
| France girls | Vanya | 15 | 7,390th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Vanya: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Vanya | 17 | 0.001% | 941st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Vanya | 3 | 0.001% | 873rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Vanya among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Vanya | 7 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Vanya lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 209 women called Vanya were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Vanya | 9 | 0.114 | 702 |
| Navarra | Vanya | 13 | 0.038 | 1,554 |
| Burgos | Vanya | 6 | 0.033 | 1,473 |
| Lleida | Vanya | 5 | 0.022 | 2,103 |
| Valladolid | Vanya | 6 | 0.022 | 1,728 |
| Madrid | Vanya | 54 | 0.015 | 2,783 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Vanya against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.