Banah

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Banah has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2022. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Banah, 2022

1 in 677,000

Banah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Banah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Banah means

Banah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Banah is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Banah between 2022 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2022; its best national rank was #15,662 in 2022.

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.

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How common is Banah?

Banah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Banah 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Banah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Banahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Banah was born before 2022 — so the typical Banah is around 3 today.

Median birth year: 2022; About 3 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Banah 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2022 (5)
Years since peak: 3; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #15,662; 2022

Spellings of Banah

Banah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 49.5% against Banah's <0.01%.

Sarah49.5%1,098,498
Hannah21.0%465,685
Dana8.7%193,555
Ana5.0%111,359
Lana2.6%57,434
Jana2.1%46,185
Anahi0.87%19,359
Janae0.81%18,052

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.

Banah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #15,662; 2022
Peak year: 2022; 5 that year
First recorded: 2022
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Banah

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

Bansi Banu Banna Banx Bansri Renah Nonah Monah Jinah Ianah Ahnah Zenah Banisha Ilyanah Rinah Milanah Kenah Bandy Yanah Bania Dinnah Tionah Dionah Ivanah

Sibling names for Banah

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

For a sister

Ezra Sapphire Scout Keilani Amayah Shoshana Nila Everlee

For a brother

Kenji Loyal Avi Rayden Kashton Zeke Gian Rishi

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