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Wania

#14,825 in 2025Girls' name

Ivan's, through Vânia

Wania has been given to 251 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #14,825 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Wania, 2025

1 in 553,000

Wania over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wania: meaning, origin, and history

Ivan's, through Vânia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wania means

Wania belongs to the name family reached through Wania → Vânia → Ва́ня → Ива́н. Its meaning is “Ivan's”.

Origin, language, and formation

Wania is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vânia, Ва́ня and Ива́н.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 251 girls were recorded with the name Wania between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2021; its best national rank was #5,557 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,656 in 2020 to #14,825 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,417 in 2015 to #14,825 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Wania?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,825
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wania 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wanias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wania was born before 2016 — so the typical Wania is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
251
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Wania 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
−2,747
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−9,169
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,408
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.1%
Peak was 2021 (23)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,557
2021

Spellings of Wania

Wania is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 24.7% against Wania's <0.01%.

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 Wania is used

Across 1910–2025, Wania was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 431,255 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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. Wania has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wania around the world

Where Wania 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
    2001–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Wania by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,825
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 9,169
Best rank ever
#5,557
2021
Peak year
2021
23 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Wania

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

WaniyaRoniaZyniaLeniaWanzaEvaniaWannaSeniaDuniaVanniaWandyWandraWanaElaniaOmniaAdoniaAnniaLoniaZaniaViniaVeniaLaniaHaniaDannia

Sibling names for Wania

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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