In 2025, 75 US girls were named Vanya, making it the 2,408th most common girls’ name of the year, up 225 places from #2,633 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 67 girls named Vanya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,194, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #4,293 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vanya in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 1,279 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 445 babies named Vanya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 656 US girls were named Vanya; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,430 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Vanya ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #909 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Vania (2,992 babies since 1880).