Vanya Girl
How popular is Vanya?
#2,387 girl name in 2025
75 baby girls were named Vanya in the US in 2025, making it the 2387th most popular girl name.
Vanya popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,387 for girls (▲ 220 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 75 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+121% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,231 in 2015, #2,170 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2020 (83 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,170 in 2020 |
| First recorded | 1955 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Vanya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Vanya family of names ranked #1,215 for girls in 2025 (#1,286 the year before), with 148 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Vanya | 75 | 51% |
| Vania | 60 | 41% |
| Vannia | 13 | 9% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Vanya is most popular
Babies named Vanya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Washington: 0.1 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (76 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (57 girls)
- Illinois: 0.0 per 1,000 (7 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Vanya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 35 | #3,695 |
| 1960s | 78 | #3,548 |
| 1970s | 50 | #6,004 |
| 1980s | 11 | #9,304 |
| 1990s | 55 | #6,478 |
| 2000s | 214 | #4,379 |
| 2010s | 391 | #2,451 |
| 2020s | 445 | #2,170 |
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Questions
- Is Vanya a boy or girl name?
- Vanya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Vanya were girls.
- How popular is the name Vanya?
- 75 baby girls were named Vanya in the US in 2025, making it the 2387th most popular girl name.
- When was Vanya most popular?
- Vanya peaked in 2020, when 83 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,170 in 2020.
- How many people are named Vanya?
- 1,279 babies have been named Vanya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,257 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Vanya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Vanya was most common in Washington, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.