In 2025, 60 US girls were named Vania, making it the 2,858th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #2,854 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 59 girls named Vania in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,516, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 153. For comparison, it was #2,844 in 2015 and #6,058 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vania in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 2,992 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 688 babies named Vania.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 619 US girls were named Vania; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Vania ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,319 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Promise (6,838 babies since 1880), Vanya (1,279 babies since 1880) and Vaani (652 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Vannie, Vani and Vaanya are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.