Sanai
#1,373 for girls in 2025, 160 births · Last seen for boys in 2021 at #12,146
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 297 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,236since 1994
Sanai over time
Rank among girls' names. Sanai has never cracked the top 900 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 | #1,373 | 160 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,579 | 133 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,603 | 130 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,540 | 139 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,498 | 141 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,585 | 134 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,554 | 139 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,600 | 136 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,425 | 162 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,477 | 155 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,624 | 132 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,328 | 176 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,326 | 177 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #1,111 | 222 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,027 | 243 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #966 | 276 | — | |
| 2008 | #922 | 297 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,045 | 251 | — | |
| 2006 | #984 | 264 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,244 | 182 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,191 | 188 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,509 | 129 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #2,352 | 68 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
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| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sanai! It came in at #13,430, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1999, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sanai is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#683 · 1 in 3,220
- Louisiana#738 · 1 in 3,101
- Georgia#791 · 1 in 3,774
- New York#820 · 1 in 4,276
- Pennsylvania#829 · 1 in 4,435
Best ever in a state: #153 in District of Columbia, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #683 | 14 | 1 in 3,220 |
| Louisiana | #738 | 6 | 1 in 3,101 |
| Georgia | #791 | 12 | 1 in 3,774 |
| New York | #820 | 19 | 1 in 4,276 |
| Pennsylvania | #829 | 11 | 1 in 4,435 |
| Massachusetts | #853 | 5 | 1 in 4,971 |
| Florida | #976 | 15 | 1 in 5,573 |
| Ohio | #1,459 | 5 | 1 in 9,721 |
| Texas | #1,619 | 14 | 1 in 11,106 |
| California | #2,584 | 7 | 1 in 24,933 |
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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 Sanai
- 206 spots since 2024 (#1,579 → #1,373)
- 121 spots since 2020 (#1,494 → #1,373)
- 104 spots since 2015 (#1,477 → #1,373)
- Biggest jump: 260 spots in 2006 (#1,244 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 61 spots in 2007 (#984 → #1,045)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2008 at #922 (297 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2008–2009
- Highest: 1 in 6,367 girls born in 2008 were named Sanai (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,045 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.3% of all girls named Sanai (1,709) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #13,430 (1994) | #13,430 |
| 2000s | 1,709 | #922 (2008) | #2,318 |
| 2010s | 1,676 | #1,027 (2010) | #1,406 |
| 2020s | 846 | #1,373 (2025) | #1,515 |
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.
Sanai in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 11,637 of them was named Sanai, which outranked 91.5% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,491Janiya142
- #1,491Tess142
- #1,491Zelie142
- #1,498Sanai141
- #1,498Amilia141
- #1,498Dailyn141
- #1,498Fern141
- #1,506Brynley140
- #1,506Devorah140
- #1,506Emme140
Tied with 7 names at #1,498; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 349,896 of them was named Sanai, which outranked 13.8% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,950 names at #12,146; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.