Girl

Zana

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#4,983
27 girls
2015
#6,030
rank
1950
#2,252
rank

Zana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #804 in 1994.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #804 in 1994; #4,983 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zana in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#4,983 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #804.

Babies in 2025
27
Since 1880
2,288
Years on record
127

Babies named Zana, every year since 1880

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Girls

Zana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 girls in 2025. Peak: #804 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 252 (1994).

About the name Zana

In 2025, 27 US girls were named Zana, making it the 4,983rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 311 places from #5,294 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 25 girls named Zana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #804, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 252. For comparison, it was #6,030 in 2015 and #2,252 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Zana in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 2,288 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 556 babies named Zana.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 229 US girls were named Zana; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 59,528 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Sanaa (6,146 babies since 1880), Sana (4,878 babies since 1880), Sanai (4,261 babies since 1880) and Zaina (3,123 babies since 1880).

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Zana in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202527#4,983——
202425#5,294——
202316#7,239——
202228#4,904——
202114#8,017——
202020#6,077——
201928#4,906——
201822#5,780——
201718#6,802——
201631#4,631——
201522#6,030——
201415#8,050——
201318#7,026——
201225#5,553——
201117#7,423——
201022#6,177——
200927#5,374——
200823#6,128——
200728#5,227——
200624#5,700——
200534#4,192——
200433#4,283——
200323#5,415——
200228#4,495——
200126#4,686——
200026#4,644——
199931#3,894——
199828#4,137——
199745#2,775——
199651#2,509——
199576#1,862——
1994252#804——
199337#3,157——
199212#7,508——
199114#6,583——
199010#8,494——
198914#6,157——
198820#4,495——
19879#7,984——
198614#5,457——
198511#6,456——
19848#8,150——
19839#7,309——
198211#6,370——
19817#9,104——
19809#7,414——
197911#6,187——
19788#7,643——
197710#6,339——
197611#5,599——
19758#7,168——
197412#5,009——
19738#6,662——
19728#6,553——
197116#3,942——
19705#9,350——
196910#5,053——
196812#4,219——
196713#3,842——
19669#4,865——
196518#3,048——
196423#2,673——
196318#3,064——
19629#4,860——
196110#4,542——
196020#2,819——
195917#2,979——
195813#3,542——
195721#2,562——
195611#3,909——
195520#2,551——
195429#1,986——
195314#3,104——
195220#2,409——
195122#2,181——
195020#2,252——
194917#2,513——
194811#3,347——
194717#2,529——
194617#2,390——
194514#2,456——
194413#2,624——
194313#2,694——
19428#3,732——
194110#3,027——
194018#1,962——
19398#3,427——
193815#2,224——
193715#2,195——
193616#2,031——
19358#3,428——
193413#2,421——
193311#2,686——
193216#2,129——
193113#2,425——
19307#4,039——
19296#4,564——
192816#2,283——
192716#2,338——
192618#2,163——
192516#2,377——
192413#2,808——
192317#2,263——
19227#4,442——
192122#1,926——
192014#2,588——
191914#2,513——
191822#1,804——
191710#3,087——
191611#2,830——
19159#3,127——
19146#3,608——
19137#2,823——
191210#1,980——
19115#2,865——
19088#1,672——
19076#2,058——
19056#1,926——
19015#1,940——
18986#1,697——
18965#1,821——
18946#1,483——
18928#1,169——
18905#1,531——
18889#958——
18846#1,022——
18825#1,027——

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).