Sanai

Where Sanai comes from

The dictionaries list Sanai as a given name — a female given name from Persian — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Persian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1994
    First appearance
    #13,430 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2008
    Peak, #922
    297 babies named Sanai — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,624.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Persian.
Namesakes

No widely known Sanai turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.