In 2025, 217 US girls were named Ivana, making it the 1,102nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #1,092 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 226 girls named Ivana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #852, reached in 1990. The most girls given the name in a single year was 266, in 2010. For comparison, it was #1,305 in 2015 and #3,304 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ivana in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 5 babies. In all, 8,042 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,020 babies named Ivana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,137 US girls were named Ivana; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 231. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,407 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ivana ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #645 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jean (483,475 babies since 1880), Jane (381,009 babies since 1880), Juanita (208,675 babies since 1880) and Jeanne (163,609 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Evona, Evyana and Evina are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, Slovene and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.