Meaning not yet researched.
Sahana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 101 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,425 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,425 in 2011; #1,921 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sahana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,921 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,425.
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Sahana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 101 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,425 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 160 (2011).
In 2025, 101 US girls were named Sahana, making it the 1,921st most common girls’ name of the year, down 143 places from #1,778 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 114 girls named Sahana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,425, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 160. For comparison, it was #1,756 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sahana in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 2,870 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,327 babies named Sahana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,167 US girls were named Sahana; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 144. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,914 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sahana ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #766 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sanaa (6,146 babies since 1880), Sana (4,878 babies since 1880) and Sanaya (1,869 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sahaana, Sahanna and Sayanna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sahaana (132), Sahanna (38), Sayanna (30).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sahana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 10 | #766 | #773 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #989 | #817 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,094 | — |
| California | 23 | #1,146 | #934 |
| Texas | 11 | #2,018 | #2,174 |
| New York | 6 | #2,031 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 2023 | 97 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 2020 | 104 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 2018 | 144 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 2017 | 136 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 2015 | 120 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 2010 | 150 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 2009 | 152 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2008 | 150 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,432 | — | — |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,714 | — | — |
| 2001 | 48 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,162 | — | — |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,176 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,313 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,488 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,720 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,385 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,362 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,048 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,894 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).