Vanna

Italian
"god is gracious"

Vanna Origin and Meaning

The name Vanna is a girl's name meaning "god is gracious".

Diminutive of the Italian Giovanna, or sometimes Vanessa or Ivanna.

Wheel of Fortune's Vanna White — who pronounces her name like the end of Savannah — got her name from her grandmother's next-door neighbor, who spelled her name Vana.

Famous People Named Vanna

  • Vanna Marie White
    American TV personality and model
  • Vanna Bonta
    Italian,American actress and novelist
  • Vanna Vanni (born Maria Angelica Giovanna Pegna)
    Italian actress
  • Vanna Felicia Rosenberg
    Swedish singer and actress
  • Vanna (Luizi) Venturi
    mother of American architect Robert Venturi, for whom he designed an iconic postmodern house

Vanna in Pop Culture

  • Monna Vanna (Lady Joan)
    character in Dante's La Vita Nuova, friend of his beloved Beatrice of The Divine Comedy
  • Monna Vanna
    main character in "Monna Vanna," unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Vanna
    character on an episode of TV's "Star Trek"