Meaning not yet researched.
Savanna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 222 in 2025. Its best rank was #210 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #210 in 2000; #1,090 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Savanna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,090 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #210.
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Savanna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 222 girls in 2025. Peak: #210 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 1,502 (2006).
In 2025, 222 US girls were named Savanna, making it the 1,090th most common girls’ name of the year, down 79 places from #1,011 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 254 girls named Savanna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #210, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,502, in 2006. For comparison, it was #503 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Savanna in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 7 babies. In all, 32,989 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 13,046 babies named Savanna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,264 US girls were named Savanna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 574. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,240 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Savanna ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #564 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Savannah (191,736 babies since 1880), Savanah (10,104 babies since 1880) and Savana (5,436 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Savina, Savahanna and Saveena 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: Savina (1,350), Savahanna (71), Saveena (46), Saviana (22), Savona (22), Sahvana (11), Saviona (6), Savena (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 Savanna in the open dataset we use.
Savanna is listed as a nickname for Savannah.
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 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 14 | #564 | #307 |
| Kansas | 5 | #676 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #720 | #465 |
| Washington | 7 | #896 | #590 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #908 | #617 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #916 | #350 |
| Alabama | 5 | #930 | #352 |
| Florida | 17 | #951 | #399 |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,019 | #429 |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,043 | #419 |
| California | 23 | #1,147 | #608 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,164 | #1,050 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,189 | #412 |
| New York | 11 | #1,300 | #439 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,308 | #644 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,381 | #435 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 222 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2024 | 254 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 2023 | 358 | #789 | — | — |
| 2022 | 391 | #740 | — | — |
| 2021 | 472 | #628 | — | — |
| 2020 | 452 | #641 | — | — |
| 2019 | 482 | #622 | — | — |
| 2018 | 518 | #591 | — | — |
| 2017 | 541 | #562 | — | — |
| 2016 | 574 | #545 | — | — |
| 2015 | 632 | #503 | — | — |
| 2014 | 673 | #472 | — | — |
| 2013 | 694 | #442 | — | — |
| 2012 | 704 | #445 | — | — |
| 2011 | 929 | #345 | — | — |
| 2010 | 845 | #374 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,007 | #328 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,102 | #302 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,414 | #246 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,502 | #230 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,271 | #258 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,198 | #274 | 10 | #7,427 |
| 2003 | 1,318 | #247 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,345 | #236 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,379 | #230 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,500 | #210 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,389 | #232 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,278 | #241 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,196 | #246 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,135 | #250 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,001 | #273 | — | — |
| 1994 | 921 | #298 | — | — |
| 1993 | 780 | #336 | — | — |
| 1992 | 537 | #459 | — | — |
| 1991 | 432 | #544 | — | — |
| 1990 | 379 | #598 | — | — |
| 1989 | 334 | #631 | — | — |
| 1988 | 323 | #620 | 5 | #8,296 |
| 1987 | 402 | #518 | — | — |
| 1986 | 403 | #515 | — | — |
| 1985 | 279 | #656 | — | — |
| 1984 | 164 | #913 | — | — |
| 1983 | 99 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,218 | — | — |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,924 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,178 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,343 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,760 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,782 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,034 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,281 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,638 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,384 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,829 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,866 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,661 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,889 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,750 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,872 | — | — |
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).