Meaning not yet researched.
Savanah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #499 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #499 in 1998; #5,880 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Savanah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,880 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #499.
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Savanah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #499 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 512 (1998).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Savanah, making it the 5,880th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,433 places from #3,447 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 46 girls named Savanah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #499, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 512. For comparison, it was #1,692 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Savanah in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 8 babies. In all, 10,104 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,008 babies named Savanah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 648 US girls were named Savanah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Savannah (191,736 babies since 1880), Savanna (32,989 babies since 1880) and Savana (5,436 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Savanah 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 | 21 | #5,880 | — | — |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,447 | — | — |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,970 | — | — |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,784 | — | — |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 2015 | 126 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 2014 | 117 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 2012 | 179 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 2011 | 223 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 2010 | 253 | #997 | — | — |
| 2009 | 304 | #899 | — | — |
| 2008 | 346 | #824 | — | — |
| 2007 | 420 | #696 | — | — |
| 2006 | 463 | #626 | — | — |
| 2005 | 407 | #683 | — | — |
| 2004 | 384 | #700 | — | — |
| 2003 | 419 | #637 | — | — |
| 2002 | 430 | #601 | — | — |
| 2001 | 397 | #635 | — | — |
| 2000 | 438 | #588 | — | — |
| 1999 | 431 | #578 | — | — |
| 1998 | 512 | #499 | — | — |
| 1997 | 498 | #500 | — | — |
| 1996 | 415 | #563 | — | — |
| 1995 | 428 | #550 | — | — |
| 1994 | 372 | #605 | — | — |
| 1993 | 275 | #756 | — | — |
| 1992 | 156 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1991 | 124 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1989 | 93 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1988 | 96 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1987 | 130 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1986 | 158 | #994 | — | — |
| 1985 | 110 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,467 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,231 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,865 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,062 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,565 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,143 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,367 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,993 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,875 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,643 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,219 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,328 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,624 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,609 | — | — |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,709 | — | — |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1888 | 14 | #717 | — | — |
| 1887 | 9 | #846 | — | — |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1884 | 8 | #844 | — | — |
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).