Vanya

#2,387 for girls in 2025, 75 births

Peak · girls
2020 · 83 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,279
since 1955

Vanya over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201955girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#2,38775
2024#2,60767
2023#2,85259
2022#2,29581
2021#2,28680
2020#2,17083
2019#2,45172
2018#3,39646
2017#3,24749
2016#3,52344
2015#4,23234
2014#4,89228
2013#6,01721
2012#3,98838
2011#4,68130
2010#4,86029
2009#5,37826
2008#7,40817
2007#4,38034
2006#4,46332
2005#5,60022
2004#4,94926
2003#7,58014
2002#7,81613
2001#6,61916
2000#7,15814
1999#6,48415
1998#10,1228
1997—
1996#13,5185
1995#9,5538
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1993#11,7806
1992#9,4918
1991#13,1475
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1985#9,3076
1984#10,4225
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1979#9,0106
1978#7,6497
1977#6,3409
1976#6,6118
1975#7,1737
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1972#8,2925
1971#6,0068
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1969#3,95813
1968#6,2466
1967#4,30010
1966#5,8096
1965#3,54913
1964#3,87912
1963#6,5925
1962#4,8658
1961—
1960#6,3905
1959#5,5666
1958#6,1035
1957#3,69611
1956#4,4678
1955#5,8285
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First appearance
1955

The first year at least five girls were named Vanya! It came in at #5,828, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1960–1961, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Vanya is popular in 1955

No state had 5 or more girls named Vanya in 1955, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Vanya
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 220 spots since 2024 (#2,607 → #2,387)
  • 217 spots since 2020 (#2,170 → #2,387)
  • 1,845 spots since 2015 (#4,232 → #2,387)
Rise & fade · girls
65 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1955
  • Peaked 2020 at #2,170 (83 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 19,476
  • Highest: 1 in 19,476 girls born in 2020 were named Vanya (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 21,430 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 34.8% of all girls named Vanya (445) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s35#3,696 (1957)#5,132
1960s78#3,549 (1965)#5,065
1970s50#6,006 (1971)#7,297
1980s11#9,307 (1985)#9,865
1990s55#6,484 (1999)#10,585
2000s214#4,380 (2007)#6,135
2010s391#2,451 (2019)#4,129
2020s445#2,170 (2020)#2,433

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.

Vanya in 1955

girls
#5,828
5 births · 1 in 391,055 girls

Top girls' names in 1955

  1. #1Mary63,174
  2. #2Deborah52,318
  3. #3Linda51,300
  4. #4Debra50,563
  5. #5Susan47,418
  6. #6Patricia46,226
  7. #7Barbara33,617
  8. #8Karen33,217
  9. #9Nancy30,023
  10. #10Donna27,940
  11. #5,828Vanya5
More about 1955

girls

1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 391,055 of them was named Vanya, which outranked 13.4% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Vanya
  1. #5,208Yvonnia6
  2. #5,208Zeena6
  3. #5,208Zera6
  4. #5,828Vanya5
  5. #5,828Abagail5
  6. #5,828Abelina5
  7. #5,828Adalene5

Tied with 904 names at #5,828; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1954
Risers
  1. ↑ 793Athena#1,505 → #712
  2. ↑ 675Desiree#984 → #309
  3. ↑ 661Roni#1,197 → #536
  4. ↑ 630Gisele#1,444 → #814
  5. ↑ 593Carmel#1,422 → #829
Fallers
  1. ↓ 514Valinda#806 → #1,320
  2. ↓ 378Elouise#969 → #1,347
  3. ↓ 287Veda#831 → #1,118
  4. ↓ 275Drema#978 → #1,253
  5. ↓ 264Brooke#965 → #1,229

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1955 →