How popular is the baby name Savannah in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Savannah.
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Which girl names decreased in usage the most from 2021 to 2022?
Here’s a table of the fastest-falling girl names of 2022. On the left are the top 25 decreases in terms of absolute change (numbers of babies). On the right are the top 25 decreases in terms of relative change (percentages of babies).
Rank
Girl name
Absolute fall
Girl name
Relative fall
1
Ava
-1,791
Ciena
-78%
2
Olivia
-1,225
Eveny
-76%
3
Emma
-1,075
Baby
-75%
4
Gianna
-1,074
Rosey
-74%
5
Ella
-772
Josabet
-74%
6
Abigail
-715
Kaidynce
-74%
7
Zoey
-709
Tzirel
-72%
8
Amelia
-674
Ulanni
-72%
9
Avery
-563
Yasma
-71%
10
Addison
-538
Ysabel
-71%
11
Aubrey
-527
Josabeth
-69%
12
Everly
-502
Aairah
-69%
13
Madison
-473
Danasia
-69%
14
Bella
-464
Elainna
-69%
15
Skylar
-456
Grayli
-69%
16
Charlotte
-445
Harlin
-69%
17
Savannah
-441
Klaudia
-69%
18
Allison
-437
Samisha
-69%
19
Kennedy
-378
Blaike
-68%
20
Peyton
-377
Modesty
-68%
21
Audrey
-348
Evryn
-68%
22
Brooklyn
-339
Kalyse
-68%
23
Claire
-335
Kassia
-68%
24
Aaliyah
-333
Eleonore
-68%
25
Riley
-324
Adelai*
-67%
*Also at -67% were Alayziah, Eliot, Jaimee, Jayli, Jeslynn, Jlynn, Luciella, Mazzie, Oralia, William, and Zenia.
And here are the girl names that saw the steepest dives out of the data (i.e., to below 5 instances of usage) in 2022:
Keilana was given to 21 babies in 2021
Rhyder was given to 18 babies in 2021
Brixleigh was given to 17 babies in 2021
Kyleigha was given to 17 babies in 2021
Zemora was given to 17 babies in 2021
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Top baby names with VAN
First, a quick rundown of the most popular names with the letter sequence “v-a-n,” according to the current U.S. baby name data.
Top girl names with “v-a-n”
Top boy names with “v-a-n”
Savannah Evangeline Vanessa Ivanna Savanna Giovanna Giavanna Avani Ivana Evangelina
Evan Giovanni Ivan Sullivan Donovan Evander Van Jovanni Vance Jovani
Now here are the same names again, but this time around I’ve added definitions, links to popularity graphs, and a handful of diminutives.
Avani
The name Avani comes from a Sanskrit word meaning “earth.”
Donovan
The Irish surname Donovan is derived from the given name Donndubhán, which was based on the Old Irish elements donn, meaning “brown,” and dubh, meaning “dark” or “black.”
Evan
The name Evan is an Anglicized form of the Welsh name Ifan — the equivalent of John. Both Ifan and John can be traced back to the Hebrew name Yochanan, meaning “Yahweh is gracious.”
Evander
The name Evander is made up of ancient Greek elements meaning “good” and “man.”
Evangeline + Evangelina
The name Evangeline is made up of ancient Greek elements meaning “good” and “news.”
The name Evangelina is a Latinized form of Evangeline.
Giovanni, Giovanna, Giavanna, Jovanni + Jovani
Like Evan, Giovanni is an Italian equivalent of the English name John.
The name Giovanna is the feminine form of Giovanni.
The names Jovanni, Jovani, and Giavanna are modern respellings of Giovanni and Giovanna.
Diminutive forms of these names include Giovannino, Giovannina, and Vanni.
Ivan, Ivana + Ivanna
The name Ivan is the equivalent of John in various Slavic languages, such as Russian, Bulgarian, and Czech.
The names Ivana and Ivanna are feminine forms of Ivan.
The Russian diminutive form of Ivan is Vanya.
Savannah + Savanna
The word-name Savanna refers to a grassland with few trees. It comes (via Spanish) from the Arawakan word zabana.
The name Savannah can be considered a form of Savanna. It could also refer to any of the various places called Savannah, including the city in Georgia.
Sullivan
The Irish surname Sullivan is derived from the given name Súileabhán, which was based on the Old Irish elements súil, meaning “eye,” and dubh, meaning “dark” or “black.”
Van
The name Van is simply a short form of any first name or family name containing van. (In the case of Dutch surnames like Van Buren, the prefix Van means “of” or “from.”)
Vance
The name Vance comes from the English surname that originally referred to someone who lived near a wetland, such as a fen or a marsh. It’s ultimately based on the Middle English word fen(ne), meaning “fen.”
Vanessa
The name Vanessa was coined by Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift as a nickname for one of his ladyfriends, Esther Vanhomrigh. (It’s a combination of “Van,” the first three letters of Vanhomrigh, and “Essa,” a diminutive of Esther.) Swift featured the name in his poem Cadenus and Vanessa (written in 1713, published in 1726).
More names with VAN
So, what other names have VAN in them? Here are some less-common choices. (Most of these come directly from the SSA’s baby name data.)
Some of the above are non-traditional spellings of more common names, such as Calvin, Kevin, Melvin, and Steven.
Finally, if you’d like to check out popularity graphs for any of the names in this post, just look below for the long list of tags. Each tag is a name, so find the name you’re interested in and click through. The graph will take a moment to load — it’s grabbing a lot of data — but it will allow you to see at a glance the name’s current and historical U.S. usage.
The baby name Vanna only saw a smattering of usage every year until the early 1980s, when it suddenly became trendy:
1988: 58 baby girls named Vanna
1987: 87 baby girls named Vanna
1986: 111 baby girls named Vanna [peak]
1985: 71 baby girls named Vanna
1984: 39 baby girls named Vanna
1983: 21 baby girls named Vanna
1982: 7 baby girls named Vanna
1981: 8 baby girls named Vanna
Usage of the baby name Vanna
The like-sounding names Savannah and Savanna also got a boost during that time period, and the spelling variant Vannah debuted the year Vanna hit peak usage.
What spurred all this interest in the name Vanna?
If you owned a TV set during the ’80s, you already know the answer: Vanna White, hostess of the popular game show Wheel of Fortune.
Vanna White was chosen out of a field of 200 hopefuls to join host Pat Sajak on the show in December of 1982. (The original hostess, Susan Stafford, quit in October.)
Her job essentially consisted of walking in front of a puzzle board — sometimes right to left, sometimes left to right — and turning tiles to reveal letters as contestants made their guesses. (Today she still walks back and forth, but the puzzle board letters are touch-activated.)
Wheel of Fortune became the highest-rated syndicated show on television in the mid-1980s. As a result, Vanna White became “TV’s most improbable cult heroine.” She became so popular, in fact, that the press dubbed the phenomenon Vanna-mania.
(Several years after peak Vanna-mania, one reporter noted that it “was one of the oddest phenomenons of our time, bestowing superstar status on a woman whose only obvious skill was turning letters on cue.”)
By early 1986, Vanna White knew she had multiple namesakes:
“I’ve gotten tons of fan mail,” she marvels. “Love letters, marriage proposals, children being named after me, which is quite an honor. Every year on Sept. 4, I get a picture of this adorable little Vanna.”
So, where did the original Vanna get her unusual first name?
[T]he name Vanna came from my grandmother’s next-door neighbor. Her name was Vana Woorell … and she spelled her name with one n … my mother liked the name so much, she said, Well, I’m gonna name my daughter Vanna with two n‘s.
What are your thoughts on the name Vanna? Would you use it?
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