Vania

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Vania is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: grace or favoured by God; form of Anne.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal1 in 907◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.7K
  • BOBolivia1 in 2.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈141K ●

across 10 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
237 ●

143K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.0K ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

VaniaLatin · Portuguese●2.2M records
ΒανιαGreek · Greek●101 records
ВаняCyrillic · Tajik●8 records
바니아Hangul · Korean●1 records

Locally spelled Vânia in AO Angola.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

grace or favoured by God; form of Anne

Sources 1

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Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Vania is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#212124,86476K rec.1 in 1.7K137KVania170
MX Mexico#99120,25011K rec.—28Vania144
CL Chile#46517,4411.9K rec.—16Vania70
PE Peru—13,8318.1K rec.——Vania52
PT Portugal#1299,2593.5K rec.—listedVania101
SE Sweden—4,365△230 rec.1 in 2.3K4.4KVania21
US United States—4,06422K rec.1 in 82K4.1KVania237
HR Croatia—4,014—1 in 1.1K4K——
IT Italy—3,9853.8K rec.—7Vania92
BO Bolivia#353,1691.7K rec.——Vania41
AR Argentina—3,0621.8K rec.—10Vania43
SI Slovenia—2,064△2 rec.1 in 1K2.1K—1

Roughly 125K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 1.7K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese2.2M90%
  • English142K6%
  • Spanish65K3%
  • Indonesian8.3K1%
  • French5.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese2,187,96490%
English142,2456%
Spanish64,5893%
Indonesian8,2531%
French5,1591%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Vania is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name11K records spelled Vania6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Peru, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Vania, Vania', Vânia

  • Bulgarian given name3.8K records spelled Vania54 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Russia, Serbia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, English

    Also written Vanja, Ваня, Vanya, Вања, Vani︠a︡

  • Hindi given name3.0K records spelled Vania7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Italy, Peru

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Vânia, Váníá, Vania️, Vãnia

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Vania5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Bolivia, United Kingdom

    Also written Vânia, Vánia, Vãnia, Vani︠a︡

  • Russian given name803 records spelled Vania36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Ваня, Vanja, Vanya, Ваниа, Ванья

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Vania is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., englische ['vaema] oder italienische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Constelación

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020040060019401960198020002020507 · 1996

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Vania in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1921–2021
Yearrecords
19211
19221
19241
19262
19271
19282
19301
19322
19341
19351
19361
19391
19412
19422
19441
19462
19474
19483
19494
19503
19513
19526
19535
19547
19557
19565
19574
19589
19591
19606
19616
19627
196312
196412
19659
196612
196715
19689
19699
197018
197128
197232
197351
197448
197563
197657
197733
197841
197958
198046
198142
198255
198367
1984143
198587
198683
1987174
1988126
1989104
1990127
1991113
1992100
1993455
1994448
1995304
1996507
1997423
1998356
1999347
2000338
2001289
2002221
2003181
2004144
2005149
2006137
200791
2008111
2009106
201076
2011110
201270
201350
201440
201531
201634
201723
201817
201922
202014
202116

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 91 years between 1921–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova, b. 1960Ivana, b. 1969Vania Stambolova, b. 1983Vania Rossi, b. 1983Vania Heymann, b. 1986Vania King, b. 1989Elisa Ravololoniaina, b. 1992Vania Larissa, b. 1995Vania Fitryanti Herlambang, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 73 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Vania
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—137K#355
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022125K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—124K#261
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.1K#4,510
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—856#3,169
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—788#1,629
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—491#261
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—162#6,099
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—134#6,334
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020134—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000126#125,639
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020111—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 623 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vania?
We estimate roughly 141 thousand people bear Vania (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Vania have the most bearers?
We estimate about 125 thousand people bear Vania in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vania.
How common is Vania compared with other names?
In Brazil, Vania is the 212th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Vania a male or female name?
Vania is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Vania mean?
Recorded meaning: grace or favoured by God; form of Anne
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vania” — the 212th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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