Baby name
CLASSIC
🇧🇷 🇮🇹 🇷🇺 Vania
/VAH · nyah/
Meaning
“God is gracious”
Slavic diminutive of Ivan, itself the Russian and South Slavic form of John meaning 'God is gracious'; used as both a masculine and feminine name across Slavic and Romance-language countries.
Nicknames
van · vani
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Soft and cross-cultural; ages cleanly across Slavic and Latin contexts.
The cultural moment.
Steady use in Brazil and Italy through the late 20th century.