Sanaa

Where Sanaa comes from

Sanaa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    Sanaa Lathan born
    American actress
  2. 1977
    First appearance
    #9,652 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1989
    Sanaa Atabrour born
    Moroccan taekwondo practitioner
  4. 2006
    Peak, #605
    482 babies named Sanaa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,060.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sanaa Lathan · American actress, born 1971
  • Sanaa Atabrour · Moroccan taekwondo practitioner, born 1989
  • Sanaa Bhambri · Indian tennis player, born 1988
  • Sanaa Mazhar · Egyptian actor, 1932–2018
  • Sanaa Hamri · Moroccan American film and television director, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.