Meaning not yet researched.
San: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,142 in 1950.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,142 in 1950; #11,755 in 2025. About 62% of babies named San in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,755 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1950, at #1,142.
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San: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,142 in 1950 · most girls in one year: 66 (1950).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named San, making it the 11,755th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,506 places from #17,261 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 5 girls named San in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,142, reached in 1950. That year also had the most girls given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #18,660 in 2015 and #1,142 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named San, making it the 13,552nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,444 places from #12,108 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 boys named San in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,122, reached in 1967. The most boys given the name in a single year was 23, in 1984. For comparison, it was #9,420 in 2015 and #2,989 in 1950.
Social Security card records list San in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 7 babies. In all, 2,502 US babies have been given the name, 75% of them girls and 25% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 533 babies named San.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 25 US girls were named San; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zane (57,228 babies since 1880), Zayn (13,221 babies since 1880) and Zain (10,243 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sahan and Sahen 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: Sahan (135), Sahen (5).
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 San in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,755 | 5 | #13,552 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,261 | 6 | #12,108 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,249 | 5 | #13,741 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #11,771 |
| 2019 | — | — | 5 | #13,790 |
| 2017 | — | — | 5 | #13,899 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,397 | 5 | #13,847 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,660 | 8 | #9,420 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #8,023 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #13,709 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,517 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,195 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,990 | — | — |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #13,006 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,282 | 5 | #12,890 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,718 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #12,168 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,417 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,090 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,085 | 10 | #6,424 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,092 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,832 | 6 | #9,062 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,546 | 9 | #6,396 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,515 | 13 | #4,737 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,524 | 8 | #6,861 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,565 | 9 | #6,134 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,332 | 15 | #4,067 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,899 | 17 | #3,607 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,391 | 15 | #3,933 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,344 | 15 | #3,776 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,186 | 11 | #4,406 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,683 | 16 | #3,173 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,139 | 12 | #3,841 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,838 | 15 | #3,191 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,453 | 23 | #2,278 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,431 | 9 | #4,433 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,153 | 20 | #2,505 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,974 | 18 | #2,659 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,118 | 16 | #2,935 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,874 | 8 | #4,779 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,074 | 10 | #3,806 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,894 | 9 | #4,100 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,381 | 10 | #3,674 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,189 | 13 | #3,048 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,243 | 8 | #4,123 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,056 | 7 | #4,420 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,502 | 13 | #2,799 |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,679 | 13 | #2,788 |
| 1970 | 42 | #2,002 | 9 | #3,482 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,628 | 9 | #3,273 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,621 | 5 | #4,637 |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,654 | 15 | #2,122 |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,630 | 6 | #3,880 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,735 | 6 | #3,861 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,832 | 5 | #4,516 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,918 | 6 | #3,980 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,687 | 8 | #3,264 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,784 | 8 | #3,315 |
| 1960 | 47 | #1,653 | 5 | #4,514 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,877 | 9 | #3,004 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,774 | 9 | #2,993 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,655 | 5 | #4,384 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,457 | 7 | #3,414 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,525 | 5 | #4,262 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1951 | 52 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1950 | 66 | #1,142 | 8 | #2,989 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,433 | 9 | #2,773 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,852 | 7 | #3,326 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,611 | 5 | #3,967 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,562 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,895 | 5 | #3,929 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,272 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,797 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,740 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,270 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,490 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,133 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,724 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,247 | 5 | #4,732 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,978 | — | — |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,951 | 5 | #4,851 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,616 | 5 | #4,852 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,747 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,650 | — | — |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,699 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,478 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,164 | — | — |
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).