Vana

Peak · girls
1948 · 22 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
558
since 1917

Vana over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Vana has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank192019401960198020002020peak #2,070, 1948girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#7,88513
2024#13,4776
2023#8,98911
2022#12,2437
2021#12,2067
2020#11,0908
2019#7,34215
2018#10,5459
2017—
2016#10,11310
2015—
2014#11,9318
2013#9,03612
2012#13,4837
2011—
2010#12,2768
2009—
2008#17,5045
2007#13,9247
2006—
2005#11,8348
2004#14,1796
2003—
2002#15,4325
2001#13,5216
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1995#11,7836
1994#10,5697
1993—
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1991#10,2717
1990#12,9585
1989—
1988#8,3918
1987#5,92312
1986#7,7498
1985#6,03111
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1981#7,4098
1980#7,4188
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1978#9,7505
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1971#6,6197
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1969#7,4715
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1967#6,8045
1966#4,8668
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1964#5,0088
1963#6,5925
1962#3,78212
1961#4,00911
1960#3,35714
1959#3,61912
1958#5,4086
1957#4,5368
1956#3,69611
1955#2,34122
1954#3,71810
1953#2,51618
1952#2,92114
1951#2,24520
1950#2,43617
1949#2,85013
1948#2,07022
1947#3,44810
1946#3,4309
1945#3,1329
1944#2,94610
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1940#4,3495
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1937#3,8006
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1934#3,1598
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1924#5,0615
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First appearance
1917

The first year at least five girls were named Vana! It came in at #4,594, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1917–1933, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Vana is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Vana in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Vana
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 3,205 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #7,885)
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1917
  • Peaked 1948 at #2,070 (22 births)
  • Births halved by 1954, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 77,178
  • Highest: 1 in 77,178 girls born in 1948 were named Vana (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 24.7% of all girls named Vana (138) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#4,594 (1917)#4,594
1920s5#5,061 (1924)#5,061
1930s14#3,159 (1934)#3,480
1940s78#2,070 (1948)#3,175
1950s138#2,245 (1951)#3,344
1960s68#3,357 (1960)#5,236
1970s12#6,619 (1971)#8,185
1980s55#5,923 (1987)#7,154
1990s25#10,271 (1991)#11,395
2000s37#11,834 (2005)#14,399
2010s69#7,342 (2019)#10,675
2020s52#7,885 (2025)#10,982

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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