Sanya
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 108 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,941since 1957
Sanya over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Sanya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 |
| 2021 | #4,719 | 28 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 |
| 2016 | #3,996 | 37 |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 |
| 2014 | #3,425 | 46 |
| 2013 | #2,903 | 58 |
| 2012 | #2,832 | 61 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 |
| 2010 | #2,589 | 70 |
| 2009 | #2,548 | 73 |
| 2008 | #2,267 | 86 |
| 2007 | #1,908 | 108 |
| 2006 | #2,165 | 89 |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 |
| 2004 | #1,962 | 95 |
| 2003 | #2,413 | 68 |
| 2002 | #2,554 | 61 |
| 2001 | #4,107 | 30 |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 |
| 1978 | #3,009 | 26 |
| 1977 | #2,557 | 33 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 |
| 1974 | #2,254 | 35 |
| 1973 | #2,830 | 24 |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 |
| 1971 | #2,665 | 27 |
| 1970 | #2,856 | 24 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 |
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First appearance
1957
The first year at least five girls were named Sanya! It came in at #4,918, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sanya is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Sanya in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 710 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #6,325)
- 304 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #6,325)
- 2,675 spots since 2015 (#3,650 → #6,325)
Rise & fade · girls
50 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2007 at #1,908 (108 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 7 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 17,802
- Highest: 1 in 17,802 girls born in 2007 were named Sanya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 37.9% of all girls named Sanya (736) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 12 | #4,918 (1957) | #5,582 |
| 1960s | 112 | #3,211 (1967) | #4,119 |
| 1970s | 254 | #2,254 (1974) | #2,956 |
| 1980s | 123 | #3,719 (1980) | #6,259 |
| 1990s | 115 | #5,010 (1997) | #7,806 |
| 2000s | 736 | #1,908 (2007) | #2,617 |
| 2010s | 458 | #2,589 (2010) | #3,633 |
| 2020s | 131 | #4,719 (2021) | #5,701 |
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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