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Ivana

#1,102 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Ivan

Ivana has been given to 8,042 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #1,102 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 266 recorded.

Babies named Ivana, 2025

1 in 15,300

Ivana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ivana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Ivan

Hebrew and English

What Ivana means

Ivana is a feminine form of Ivan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ivana → Ivan → Ива́н. The family’s meaning is “Ivan's”, recorded in Russian with the source elements Ива́н.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From various Slavic languages, such as Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian Ивана (Ivana). Doublet of Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ivana (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Ivana is used in English, Czech, Ingrian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Tagalog. Its origins include Hebrew and English.

Ivana comes through bg,mk,ru Ивана.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ivan, John, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen and Joan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Ivana is pronounced [ˈɪvana].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,042 girls were recorded with the name Ivana between 1943 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 266 in 2010; its best national rank was #851 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,095 in 2020 to #1,102 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,305 in 2015 to #1,102 in 2025.

How common is Ivana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,300
217 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,410
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,102
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ivana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,591 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ivana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ivanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ivana was born before 2006 — so the typical Ivana is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,022
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (2,020).

Is Ivana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+203
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.6%
Peak was 2010 (266)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#851
1990

Spellings of Ivana

Ivana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 24.9% against Ivana's 0.54%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ivana is used

Across 2016–2025, Ivana was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 6,675 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 4,167
  2. 2Florida1 in 4,762
  3. 3Arizona1 in 5,263
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 5,263
  5. 5California1 in 5,556
  6. 6New York1 in 5,882
  7. 7Georgia1 in 7,143
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 7,143

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ivana around the world

Where Ivana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #922
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2017
    #432
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2002–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1927–2025
    #847
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #478
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #835
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ivana

People whose public names include Ivana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ivana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ivana. Linked forms have their own page here.

JanaJaneJeanYanaIvaneJonnaJuanaIvankaIvannaJeanneJohanneJuanitaGiovannaSiân

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ivana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,102
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7
Best rank ever
#851
1990
Peak year
2010
266 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,042
Count in 2025
217

Names similar to Ivana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

IvannaJoanaJeanaElanaGianaIlanaAyanaIyanaLeanaLuanaChanaAryanaAvianaJuanaAlianaMilanaTanaJohanaLianaAitanaAiyanaBryanaTyanaDeana

Names with a curve like Ivana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ivana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ivana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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