Vanya

Where Vanya comes from

Romanization of Russian and Ukrainian Ва́ня (Vánja, “Johnny”), a diminutive of Ива́н (Iván), Іван (Ivan, “John”)
— Wiktionary's entry for Vanya
  • Russian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1955
    First appearance
    #5,828 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2020
    Peak, #2,170
    83 babies named Vanya — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A transliteration of the pet form of the Russian male given name from Russian or Ukrainian Ива́н (Iván), Іван (Ivan).
  • A female given name
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.