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Saana

Girls' name

From Northern Sami Sána; literal meaning unconfirmed

Saana has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2004, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Saana, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saana: meaning, origin, and history

From Northern Sami Sána; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saana means

Saana is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Saana is used in Finnish.

Saana comes through Northern Sami Sána.

Saana is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Saana is pronounced /ˈsɑːnɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 girls were recorded with the name Saana between 2002 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2004; its best national rank was #15,689 in 2004.

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 Saana?

Saana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saana 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saana was born before 2006 — so the typical Saana is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
80.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
26
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 80.8% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Saana 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (6)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#15,689
2004

Spellings of Saana

Saana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 28.2% against Saana'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.

Saana around the world

Where Saana 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
    2000–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1999–2020
    #5,767
    in 2020

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

Saana 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
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Best rank ever
#15,689
2004
Peak year
2004
6 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saana

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

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Sibling names for Saana

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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