Vaanya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- VAHN-ya
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,076 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,351 for girls
Vaanya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “of the forest”. In 2025 it ranked 2,076th for girls in the UK (14 babies) and 4,351st for girls in the US (32 babies).
What does Vaanya mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Vanya; Sanskrit vanya; also a Russian pet form of Ivan
“of the forest”
In Sanskrit vanya means 'of the forest'; in Russian, Vanya is a boys' pet form of Ivan, as in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.
Meaning borrowed from Vanya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Vaanya a girl's or a boy's name?
Vaanya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the UK and 32 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Vaanya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,076th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 20,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were named Vaanya, making it the 2,076th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th.
2025 had the most girls named Vaanya of any year since it first appeared, in 2010.
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were given Vaanya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #977, up from #2,076 for this spelling alone.
- Vanya 19
- Vaanya 14
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,006th in England and Wales.
Vaanya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
How popular is Vaanya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,351st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 32 about 1 in 50,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 70% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 32 girls in the US were named Vaanya, making it the 4,351st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. It first appears in the records in 2007.
2025 had the most girls named Vaanya of any year since it first appeared, in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Vaanya in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 107 girls in the US were given Vaanya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,620, up from #4,351 for this spelling alone.
- Vanya 75
- Vaanya 32
Vaanya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,351 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,829 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
Names like Vaanya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aadhya, Viha, Navya, Aavya, Prisha, Kavya, Arya, Aarya, Dhanvi, Dhriti, Krishvi, Varnika
Other spellings of Vaanya
Names related to Vaanya
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya, Leena, Shivansh
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Vaanya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/vaanya, updated 20 October 2026.