Vanna
About Vanna
Diminutive of the Italian Giovanna, or sometimes Vanessa or Ivanna.
Wheel of Fortune's Vanna White — who pronounces her name like the end of Savannah — got her name from her grandmother's next-door neighbor, who spelled her name Vana.
Pronounced VAN-uh.
As of October 2026, Vanna ranked #2930 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1240 in 1986.
Editor's take: The name Vanna is a girl's name meaning "god is gracious".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,261 | 35 | 19.6 |
| 2015 | #3,252 | 51 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | #3,224 | 51 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | #2,543 | 70 | 40.5 |
| 2018 | #3,199 | 51 | 30 |
| 2019 | #3,330 | 48 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | #3,332 | 47 | 29.1 |
| 2021 | #3,606 | 43 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | #3,412 | 47 | 28.7 |
| 2023 | #3,635 | 43 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | #3,802 | 40 | 24.7 |
| 2025 | #2,930 | 58 | 36.1 |
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Vanna on lists
Famous Vannas
- Vanna Marie White
American TV personality and model
- Vanna Bonta
Italian,American actress and novelist
- Vanna Vanni (born Maria Angelica Giovanna Pegna)
Italian actress
- Vanna Felicia Rosenberg
Swedish singer and actress
- Vanna (Luizi) Venturi
mother of American architect Robert Venturi, for whom he designed an iconic postmodern house
Vanna in pop culture
- Monna Vanna (Lady Joan)
character in Dante's La Vita Nuova, friend of his beloved Beatrice of The Divine Comedy
- Monna Vanna
main character in "Monna Vanna," unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck
- Vanna
character on an episode of TV's "Star Trek"