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).