Sani
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Given to girls 75.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 32 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 388since 2002
Sani over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #13,208 | 6 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | — | |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #5,574 | 25 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | — | |
| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
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First appearance
2002
The first year at least five girls were named Sani! It came in at #8,837, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2025, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Sani is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Sani in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Sani
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 3,652 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #13,208)
- 4,802 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #13,208)
- 2,342 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
5 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2007 at #4,567 (32 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 60,082
- Highest: 1 in 60,082 girls born in 2007 were named Sani (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 46.1% of all girls named Sani (179) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 179 | #4,567 (2007) | #6,048 |
| 2010s | 153 | #5,414 (2010) | #7,902 |
| 2020s | 56 | #8,406 (2020) | #10,331 |
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.
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