Ványa
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ványa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Romanization of Russian Ва́ня (Vánja, “Johnny”), a diminutive of Ива́н (Iván, “John”).
- USUnited States1 in 264K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 68K
- ISIceland1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
1,260 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vanya in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Romanization of Russian Ва́ня (Vánja, “Johnny”), a diminutive of Ива́н (Iván, “John”)
Sources 4
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Wiktionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ványa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,260 | 1 in 264K | 1.1K | Vanya | 230 |
| RU Russia | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 399K | — | Vanya | 30 |
| DE Germany | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Vanya | 61 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 223K | listed | Vanya | 94 |
| IT Italy | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 223K | 2 | — | 9 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 164K | 1 | Vanya | 60 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 29 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 90 | 1 in 113K | 90 | — | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Vanya | 36 |
| IS Iceland | 4 | 1 in 88K | 4 | — | — |
1,260 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ványa mean, and where does it come from?
- Romanization of Russian Ва́ня (Vánja, “Johnny”), a diminutive of Ива́н (Iván, “John”) Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Ványa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Ványa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vanya.
- How common is the name Ványa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,260 people named Ványa in 2020, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A1nyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ványa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.