Vanni

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Boy · Italian

Vanni

Say it: VAN-nee

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Meaning

A Tuscan short form of Giovanni.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.

Through the ages

The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450

Used by

Italian

Famous bearers

Vanni Fucci, Pistoian thief in Dante's Inferno

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Where this comes from

Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
Well-known works of literature

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.