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Sadhana

#11,737 in 2025Girls' name

Accomplishment, completion

Sadhana has been given to 225 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #11,737 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Sadhana, 2025

1 in 414,000

Sadhana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sadhana: meaning, origin, and history

Accomplishment, completion

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sadhana means

Sadhana means “accomplishment, completion”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sadhana is used in Bengali, Hindi and Marathi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 225 girls were recorded with the name Sadhana between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2013; its best national rank was #6,673 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,942 in 2020 to #11,737 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,734 in 2015 to #11,737 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.

How common is Sadhana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,737
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sadhana 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sadhana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sadhanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sadhana was born before 2011 — so the typical Sadhana is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
225
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2000s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Sadhana 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
+205
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,003
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.1%
Peak was 2013 (19)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,673
2013

Spellings of Sadhana

Sadhana is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 50.9% against Sadhana's 0.39%.

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.

Where Sadhana is used

Across 1910–2025, Sadhana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sadhana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sadhana around the world

Where Sadhana 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
    2003–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    2009–2009
    #6,515
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1966–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sadhana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,737
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 205
Best rank ever
#6,673
2013
Peak year
2013
19 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
225
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Sadhana

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

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Sibling names for Sadhana

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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