Meaning not yet researched.
Sanaa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 89 in 2025. Its best rank was #606 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #606 in 2006; #2,116 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sanaa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,116 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #606.
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Sanaa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 89 girls in 2025. Peak: #606 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 482 (2006).
In 2025, 89 US girls were named Sanaa, making it the 2,116th most common girls’ name of the year, up 264 places from #2,380 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 77 girls named Sanaa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #606, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 482. For comparison, it was #1,232 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sanaa in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 6,146 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,178 babies named Sanaa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,308 US girls were named Sanaa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 217. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,059 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sanaa ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #822 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sana (4,878 babies since 1880), Sanai (4,261 babies since 1880), Sahana (2,870 babies since 1880) and Zana (2,288 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zanaya, Zanna and Sanah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Zanaya (700), Zanna (635), Sanah (400), Sanaii (398), Saina (388), Sanaiya (365), Sanayah (332), Sanae (324), Zanae (309), Zanai (291), Sanaia (200), Sanay (172), and more.
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 Sanaa 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 6 | #822 | #874 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,162 | #932 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,329 | #588 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,413 | #1,369 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,526 | #1,340 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,597 | #973 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,666 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,373 | #727 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,229 | #1,698 |
| California | 5 | #3,455 | #2,137 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 2023 | 90 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 2022 | 94 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 2017 | 192 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 2016 | 217 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 2015 | 201 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 2014 | 219 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 2013 | 199 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 2012 | 237 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 2011 | 290 | #900 | — | — |
| 2010 | 349 | #791 | — | — |
| 2009 | 397 | #732 | — | — |
| 2008 | 384 | #766 | — | — |
| 2007 | 438 | #671 | — | — |
| 2006 | 482 | #606 | — | — |
| 2005 | 312 | #823 | — | — |
| 2004 | 407 | #675 | — | — |
| 2003 | 310 | #800 | — | — |
| 2002 | 207 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 2001 | 213 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,685 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,447 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,198 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,688 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,968 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,258 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,361 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,446 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,080 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,470 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,049 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,584 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,017 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,839 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,633 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,054 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,903 | — | — |
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).