Vanna

Italian

"god is gracious"

Vanna Origin and Meaning

The name Vanna is a girl's name meaning "god is gracious".

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.

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Famous People Named Vanna

• 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

The name 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"