Entry № 11104 · English origin

Vance Vance — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VANS /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Marshland (J.D. Vance; Hillbilly Elegy)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "marshland (j.d. vance; hillbilly elegy)".

Vance is from the Old English fenn (marshland, fen). J.D. Cyrus Vance Sr. Carlos Vance — modern American figure.

Marshland (J.D. Vance; Hillbilly Elegy) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Vance
Transliteration
Vance
Pronunciation
/ væns /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vance stands.

Vance does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Vances before her.

Real people
J.D. Vance
50th US Vice President.
born 1984
Cyrus Vance Sr.
US Secretary of State.
1917 – 2002
Vance Joy
Australian singer (Riptide).
born 1987
In fiction
Vance
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Vance.

The number behind Vance.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vance reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.