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Bana

#6,360 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bana has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #6,360 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Bana, 2025

1 in 184,000

Bana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bana means

Bana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bana is used in Atayal and Pazeh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 girls were recorded with the name Bana between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,360 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,717 in 2020 to #6,360 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,028 in 2015 to #6,360 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,360
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Banas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bana was born before 2015 — so the typical Bana is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Bana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+5,996
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+7,357
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,668
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (18)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,360
2025

Spellings of Bana

Bana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 12.5% against Bana's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Bana around the world

Where Bana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–2025
    #6,617
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Bana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,360
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 7,357
Best rank ever
#6,360
2025
Peak year
2025
18 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
217
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Bana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BaniXanaBanksAianaAzanaVanaAdanaNianaEyanaCanaManaIanaBanxDhanaWanaXianaKanaJaanaAmanaAyaanaKohanaNyanaOlianaYvana

Sibling names for Bana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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