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Sahana

#1,921 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sahana has been given to 2,870 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,921 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 160 recorded.

Babies named Sahana, 2025

1 in 32,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sahana: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sahana means

Sahana is a given name.

The naming story behind Sahana

Wikidata records Sahana as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q20000796, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,870 girls were recorded with the name Sahana between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 160 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,425 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,868 in 2020 to #1,921 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,756 in 2015 to #1,921 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 Sahana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,800
101 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,921
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,753 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sahana 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,753 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sahana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sahanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sahana was born before 2013 — so the typical Sahana is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,870
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (1,327).

Is Sahana 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
−143
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−53
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−165
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.1%
Peak was 2011 (160)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,425
2011

Spellings of Sahana

Sahana is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 11.9% against Sahana's 0.50%.

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 Sahana is used

Across 2016–2025, Sahana was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 11,903 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 50,000).

223 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 4,348
  2. 2California1 in 7,143
  3. 3New York1 in 9,091
  4. 4Illinois1 in 11,111
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  6. 6Washington1 in 11,111
  7. 7Ohio1 in 14,286
  8. 8Texas1 in 14,286

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.

Sahana around the world

Where Sahana 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
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #3,902
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Sahana

People whose public names include Sahana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sahana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,921
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 53
Best rank ever
#1,425
2011
Peak year
2011
160 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,870
Count in 2025
101

Names similar to Sahana

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

SahaanaSaharaSaharSahasraAllanaRosanaSolanaSahilyElyanaAlyanaKeyanaOrianaSahiraQuianaJovanaDelanaKatanaRomanaEleanaLiyanaKitanaHavanaKiyanaSavana

Names with a curve like Sahana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sahana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AngelyHarmonieKamiyaClairaMaliyaMariajoseJiyaJazelleEmmersonMalakLeilahNariah

Sibling names for Sahana

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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