Vanna
Italian
"god is gracious"Share
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Updated Wed Apr 17 2024
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.
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Famous People Named Vanna
- Vanna Marie WhiteAmerican TV personality and model
- Vanna BontaItalian,American actress and novelist
- Vanna Vanni (born Maria Angelica Giovanna Pegna)Italian actress
- Vanna Felicia RosenbergSwedish singer and actress
- Vanna (Luizi) Venturimother 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 Vannamain character in "Monna Vanna," unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck
- Vannacharacter on an episode of TV's "Star Trek"