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Vanna

OriginItalian
Meaning"god is gracious"
GenderBoy & girl
US rank · girls#2930

2025 SSA

US rank · boysUnranked

Below 5 births

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.

Vanna is also given to boys.

Pronounced VAN-uh.

As of October 2026, Vanna ranked #2930 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1240 in 1986.

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Famous Vannas

  • Vanna Marie WhiteGirl

    American TV personality and model

  • Vanna BontaGirl

    Italian,American actress and novelist

  • Vanna Vanni (born Maria Angelica Giovanna Pegna)Girl

    Italian actress

  • Vanna Felicia RosenbergGirl

    Swedish singer and actress

  • Vanna (Luizi) VenturiGirl

    mother of American architect Robert Venturi, for whom he designed an iconic postmodern house

Vanna in pop culture

  • Monna Vanna (Lady Joan)Girl

    character in Dante's La Vita Nuova, friend of his beloved Beatrice of The Divine Comedy

  • Monna VannaGirl

    main character in "Monna Vanna," unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck

  • VannaGirl

    character on an episode of TV's "Star Trek"

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