Sanaa
#2,099 for girls in 2025, 89 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 482 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,146since 1977
Sanaa over time
Rank among girls' names. Sanaa has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,099 | 89 |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 |
| 2023 | #2,124 | 90 |
| 2022 | #2,048 | 94 |
| 2021 | #1,851 | 108 |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 |
| 2019 | #1,569 | 136 |
| 2018 | #1,386 | 162 |
| 2017 | #1,240 | 192 |
| 2016 | #1,158 | 217 |
| 2015 | #1,227 | 201 |
| 2014 | #1,140 | 219 |
| 2013 | #1,203 | 199 |
| 2012 | #1,060 | 237 |
| 2011 | #898 | 290 |
| 2010 | #789 | 349 |
| 2009 | #730 | 397 |
| 2008 | #765 | 384 |
| 2007 | #671 | 438 |
| 2006 | #605 | 482 |
| 2005 | #823 | 312 |
| 2004 | #675 | 407 |
| 2003 | #797 | 310 |
| 2002 | #1,039 | 207 |
| 2001 | #1,010 | 213 |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sanaa! It came in at #9,652, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sanaa is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#429 · 1 in 1,786
- Georgia#489 · 1 in 2,288
- Pennsylvania#570 · 1 in 2,881
- Minnesota#632 · 1 in 3,068
- Maryland#678 · 1 in 3,434
Best ever in a state: #153 in District of Columbia, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #429 | 10 | 1 in 1,786 |
| Georgia | #489 | 21 | 1 in 2,288 |
| Pennsylvania | #570 | 18 | 1 in 2,881 |
| Minnesota | #632 | 8 | 1 in 3,068 |
| Maryland | #678 | 7 | 1 in 3,434 |
| New Jersey | #710 | 10 | 1 in 3,658 |
| Florida | #755 | 21 | 1 in 4,129 |
| Louisiana | #755 | 6 | 1 in 3,498 |
| Illinois | #811 | 13 | 1 in 4,433 |
| Michigan | #827 | 9 | 1 in 4,674 |
| Virginia | #842 | 8 | 1 in 4,642 |
| New York | #923 | 17 | 1 in 5,285 |
| North Carolina | #1,002 | 8 | 1 in 5,664 |
| California | #1,525 | 17 | 1 in 11,983 |
| Texas | #1,809 | 12 | 1 in 13,941 |
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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 Sanaa
- 263 spots since 2024 (#2,362 → #2,099)
- 605 spots since 2020 (#1,494 → #2,099)
- 872 spots since 2015 (#1,227 → #2,099)
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 2003 (#1,039 → #797)
- Biggest drop: 162 spots in 2012 (#898 → #1,060)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2006 at #605 (482 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2003–2011
- Highest: 1 in 3,944 girls born in 2006 were named Sanaa (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,059 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 51.7% of all girls named Sanaa (3,178) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,652 (1977) | #9,652 |
| 1980s | 56 | #6,457 (1985) | #8,106 |
| 1990s | 104 | #5,399 (1991) | #8,519 |
| 2000s | 3,178 | #605 (2006) | #1,141 |
| 2010s | 2,202 | #789 (2010) | #1,167 |
| 2020s | 601 | #1,494 (2020) | #1,996 |
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.
Sanaa in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 8,166 of them was named Sanaa, which outranked 93.9% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,152Roslyn218
- #1,152Selina218
- #1,152Taryn218
- #1,158Sanaa217
- #1,158Addalynn217
- #1,158Amiah217
- #1,158Honesty217
- #1,164Aanya216
- #1,164Adilene216
- #1,164Drew216
Tied with 5 names at #1,158; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.