Meaning not yet researched.
Sana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 151 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,316 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,316 in 2022; #1,434 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,434 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,316.
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Sana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 151 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,316 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 180 (2022).
In 2025, 151 US girls were named Sana, making it the 1,434th most common girls’ name of the year, up 16 places from #1,450 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 152 girls named Sana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,316, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 180. For comparison, it was #1,676 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sana in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 5 babies. In all, 4,878 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,222 babies named Sana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,405 US girls were named Sana; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 180. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,644 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sana ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #655 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shana (29,748 babies since 1880), Sanaa (6,146 babies since 1880), Sanai (4,261 babies since 1880) and Zaina (3,123 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zahna, Zaena and Sayona 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zahna (19), Zaena (15), Sayona (10).
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 Sana 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 12 | #655 | #842 |
| California | 41 | #765 | #1,203 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #926 | #1,043 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,025 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,036 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,062 | — |
| New York | 14 | #1,078 | #1,475 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,305 | #1,609 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 151 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 2024 | 152 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 2023 | 172 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 2020 | 92 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2019 | 146 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 2017 | 138 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 2016 | 122 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 2015 | 128 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 2011 | 129 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 2000 | 115 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1999 | 124 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1998 | 104 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1993 | 85 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,310 | 5 | #7,393 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,408 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,498 | — | — |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,922 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,381 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,051 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,246 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,858 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,407 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,207 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,611 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,750 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,358 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,607 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,842 | — | — |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,138 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,768 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,597 | — | — |
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).