Sanaz

Girls' name

Possibly full of grace

Sanaz has been given to 142 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1991, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Sanaz, 2018

1 in 502,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sanaz: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly full of grace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sanaz means

Sanaz may mean “full of grace”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sanaz is used in Persian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 142 girls were recorded with the name Sanaz between 1978 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1991; its best national rank was #7,223 in 1987.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Sanaz?

Sanaz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018: 1 in 502,000; 7 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only: 1 in 243,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 348,244 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sanaz 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanaz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sanazs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanaz was born before 1988 — so the typical Sanaz is around 37 today.

Median birth year: 1988; About 37 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 26.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 142; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Sanaz 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 1991 (12)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 37.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,223; 1987

Spellings of Sanaz

Sanaz is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 49.1% against Sanaz's <0.01%.

Sarah49.1%1,098,498
Sara19.5%436,193
Dana8.7%193,555
Ana5.0%111,359
Sandy3.1%69,072
Lana2.6%57,434
Jana2.1%46,185
Shana1.3%29,635

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 Sanaz is used

Across 1910–2025, Sanaz was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,001,597 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

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. Sanaz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sanaz around the world

Where Sanaz 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
2011–2011
#5,785
in 2011
Canada
1991–1991
#2,131
in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sanaz 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: #7,223; 1987
Peak year: 1991; 12 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 2018
All-time count: 142
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sanaz

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

Sanye Sansa Sanem Sanova Sanae Santi Sanaai Sanyla Sanam Sanari Sanja Sanoe Sanna Sanora Sani Sanaii Sanii Sande Sanika Sanvika Sanjna Sandar Sanyi Sanylah

Sibling names for Sanaz

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

Devan Chanelle Ileana Amberly Iesha Elvia Kacy Maegan

For a brother

Jamil Laron Paris Dejuan Coty Rico Malcom German

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