Vania
given name · Latin script
Meaning: grace or favoured by God; form of Anne
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɐniɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vania is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 31st most common given name.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vania itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
124,864 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
grace or favoured by God; form of Anne
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vania 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #244 | 124,864 | 1 in 1.7K | 137K | Vania | 170 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 7 | Vania | 92 |
| BO Bolivia | #31 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Vania | 44 |
| PT Portugal | #111 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Vania | 103 |
| CL Chile | #499 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 16 | Vania | 73 |
| HR Croatia | — | 4,014as Vanja | 1 in 1.1K | 4K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,305as Vanja | 1 in 912 | 2.1K | — | 1 |
124,864 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkovab. 1960BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian sprint canoer
- Ivanab. 1969BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian female singer
- Vania Stambolovab. 1983BGBulgarian sprinter and hurdler
- Vania Rossib. 1983ITItalian racing cyclist
- Vania Heymannb. 1986ILIsraeli film director
- Vania Kingb. 1989USAmerican female tennis player
- Elisa Ravololoniainab. 1992MGnot in their usual nameMalagasy weightlifter
- Vania Larissab. 1995IDIndonesian singer
- Vania Fitryanti Herlambangb. 1997IDIndonesian model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Vania Plemiannikovactress; daughter of Roger Vadim
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 137K | #355 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 125K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 124K | #261 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 491 | #261 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 134 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 16 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 7 | #1,345 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vania mean, and where does it come from?
- grace or favoured by God; form of Anne Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Vania?
- A machine transcription gives /bɐniɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- 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.
- In which country does Vania have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 125 thousand people named Vania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vania.
- How common is the name Vania?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 124,864 people named Vania in 2022, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Vania compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Vania is the 244th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vania?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vaniaThe 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, “Vania” — the 244th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.