Entry № 11114 · Hebrew origin

Vania Vania — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VAH-nyah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"John feminine (Russian + Brazilian + Bulgarian)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Russian)

A name that means "john feminine (russian + brazilian + bulgarian)".

Vania is from the Russian Vanya (Ваня — diminutive of Ivan) — feminine of John — from the Hebrew Yochanan (Yahweh is gracious). Vania is one of the Russian + Brazilian + Bulgarian feminine names.

John feminine (Russian-Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

Ваня / Vânia
Transliteration
Vanya
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɑː.njə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vania stands.

Vania 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.

Vanias before her.

Real people
Vania King
2x Grand Slam doubles champion Wimbledon + US Open 2010.
born 1989
In fiction
Vania
Russian John feminine diminutive.

Names connected to Vania.

The number behind Vania.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vania reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.