Wanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɑnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common given name.
- THThailand≈1 in 1.1Kas วรรณา(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 196K
- CNChina≈1 in 291K
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 Wanna 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- 1 in 196K (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 named วรรณา, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
19 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vanna in IT Italy, SE Sweden, ID Indonesia and 1 more and วรรณา in TH Thailand.
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)
Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wanna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #70 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | #404,363 | วรรณา | 130 |
| KH Cambodia | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 764 | 50 | — | 1 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Wanna | 16 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Vanna | 45 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Vanna | 23 |
| SE Sweden | — | 230as Vanna | 1 in 44K | 230 | Vanna | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | 82as Vanna | 1 in 52K | 102 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 30 | 1 in 196K | 30 | Vanna | 6 |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); The Bump provides a list of Cambodian baby names along with their meanings and significance.; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Wanna 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 Polish, bath, bathtub
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, heart
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Wanna Buakaewb. 1981THThai volleyball player and coach
- Wanna Britob. 1996BRBrazilian Paralympic sportswoman
- Wanna SitthaiTHThai amateur wrestler
- Wanna Hanshaoworakulresearcher
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 36 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 121 | #7,504 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 111 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 110 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 106 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 103 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 100 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 96 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 94 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 92 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 91 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 88 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 87 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Wanna mean, and where does it come from?
- Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wanna?
- A machine transcription gives /wɑnə/ (IPA) for Thai.
- Is Wanna a male or female name?
- Wanna 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 Wanna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named วรรณา in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wanna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wanna is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 196 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wanna?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 30 people named Wanna, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
- How common is Wanna compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Wanna is the 70th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wanna?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wannaThe 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, “Wanna” — the 70th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.