Meaning not yet researched.
Sanai: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 160 in 2025. Its best rank was #924 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #924 in 2008; #1,378 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sanai in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,378 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #924.
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Sanai: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 160 girls in 2025. Peak: #924 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 297 (2008).
In 2025, 160 US girls were named Sanai, making it the 1,378th most common girls’ name of the year, up 210 places from #1,588 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 133 girls named Sanai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #924, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 297. For comparison, it was #1,485 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sanai in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 4,261 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,714 babies named Sanai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,417 US girls were named Sanai; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 162. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,045 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sanai ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #594 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), Zana (2,288 babies since 1880) and Sanaya (1,869 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zanaii 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: Zanaii (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 Sanai 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 9 | #594 | #875 |
| Georgia | 14 | #745 | #614 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #837 | #929 |
| Virginia | 8 | #918 | #933 |
| Florida | 16 | #993 | #899 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,047 | #1,370 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,306 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,372 | #934 |
| New York | 10 | #1,402 | #958 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,416 | #1,145 |
| California | 14 | #1,641 | #1,425 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 160 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 2024 | 133 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 2022 | 139 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 2021 | 141 | #1,505 | 5 | #13,742 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 2017 | 136 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 2015 | 155 | #1,485 | 5 | #13,696 |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 2013 | 176 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 2012 | 177 | #1,330 | 5 | #13,856 |
| 2011 | 222 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 2010 | 243 | #1,029 | 5 | #13,901 |
| 2009 | 276 | #966 | — | — |
| 2008 | 297 | #924 | — | — |
| 2007 | 251 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 2006 | 264 | #986 | — | — |
| 2005 | 182 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 2004 | 188 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,519 | 5 | #12,426 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,133 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,577 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,259 | — | — |
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).