Sana
#1,427 for girls in 2025, 151 births · Last seen for boys in 1985 at #6,523
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 180 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,873since 1923
Sana over time
Rank among girls' names. Sana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,427 | 151 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,446 | 152 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,319 | 172 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,309 | 180 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,791 | 113 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,023 | 92 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,495 | 146 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,554 | 139 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,580 | 138 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,729 | 122 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,667 | 128 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,757 | 118 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,918 | 104 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,003 | 97 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,655 | 129 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,978 | 101 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,914 | 109 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,865 | 114 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,815 | 117 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,651 | 128 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,878 | 103 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,614 | 120 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,612 | 119 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,444 | 132 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,458 | 129 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,551 | 115 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,416 | 124 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,578 | 104 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,696 | 92 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,881 | 77 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,626 | 91 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,841 | 77 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,741 | 85 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,688 | 89 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,905 | 73 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,750 | 77 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,071 | 56 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,044 | 54 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,751 | 66 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,283 | 44 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #2,266 | 43 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,581 | 36 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,411 | 24 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,839 | 16 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 | — | |
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| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 | — | |
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| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sana! It came in at #4,967, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1950, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sana is popular in 1995
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#629 · 1 in 4,757
- New York#889 · 1 in 7,168
- Texas#1,179 · 1 in 10,496
- Illinois#1,267 · 1 in 12,094
- California#1,336 · 1 in 13,032
Best ever in a state: #465 in New Jersey, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #629 | 9 | 1 in 4,757 |
| New York | #889 | 15 | 1 in 7,168 |
| Texas | #1,179 | 13 | 1 in 10,496 |
| Illinois | #1,267 | 6 | 1 in 12,094 |
| California | #1,336 | 18 | 1 in 13,032 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sana
- 19 spots since 2024 (#1,446 → #1,427)
- 596 spots since 2020 (#2,023 → #1,427)
- 240 spots since 2015 (#1,667 → #1,427)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2022 at #1,309 (180 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,112 girls born in 2022 were named Sana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,644 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 25.1% of all girls named Sana (1,222) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,967 (1923) | #5,014 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,556 (1945) | #4,556 |
| 1950s | 39 | #2,839 (1955) | #4,067 |
| 1960s | 43 | #4,831 (1965) | #5,919 |
| 1970s | 142 | #2,860 (1979) | #4,842 |
| 1980s | 478 | #1,750 (1989) | #2,364 |
| 1990s | 888 | #1,416 (1999) | #1,723 |
| 2000s | 1,186 | #1,444 (2002) | #1,680 |
| 2010s | 1,222 | #1,495 (2019) | #1,734 |
| 2020s | 860 | #1,309 (2022) | #1,553 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sana in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 19,325 of them was named Sana, which outranked 89.7% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,614Sheyenne92
- #1,614Starr92
- #1,614Tamar92
- #1,626Sana91
- #1,626Adele91
- #1,626Dorian91
- #1,626Irania91
- #1,640Chelsee90
- #1,640Davina90
- #1,640Francine90
Tied with 13 names at #1,626; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.