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Sanem

#9,986 in 2025Girls' name

Idol

Sanem has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 2021. In 2025 it ranked #9,986 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Sanem, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sanem: meaning, origin, and history

Idol

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sanem means

Sanem means “idol”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 girls were recorded with the name Sanem between 2021 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2021; its best national rank was #5,534 in 2021.

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 Sanem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,986
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sanem 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sanems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanem was born before 2022 — so the typical Sanem 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
73
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Sanem 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
−1,129
Places dropped
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
43.5%
Peak was 2021 (23)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,534
2021

Spellings of Sanem

Sanem is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 48.1% against Sanem'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.

Where Sanem is used

Across 1910–2025, Sanem was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,067,518 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

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

Sanem around the world

Where Sanem 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
    2007–2023
    #4,057
    in 2023
  • France
    2003–2019
    #7,028
    in 2019

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.

Sanem by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,986
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,534
2021
Peak year
2021
23 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Sanem

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

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Sibling names for Sanem

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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