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Sanna

#11,753 in 2025Girls' name

Lily, through Susanna

Sanna has been given to 731 babies in the U.S. since 1894. In 2025 it ranked #11,753 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Sanna, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sanna: meaning, origin, and history

Lily, through Susanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sanna means

Sanna belongs to the name family reached through Sanna → Susanna. Its meaning is “lily”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sanna is used in Estonian, Faroese, Finnish and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Susanna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Faroese, Sanna is pronounced /sanːa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 731 girls were recorded with the name Sanna between 1894 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,332 in 1894.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,334 in 2020 to #11,753 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,246 in 2015 to #11,753 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sanna?

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
#11,753
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sanna 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 Sanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanna was born before 1992 — so the typical Sanna is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
655
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (136).

Is Sanna 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
−2,895
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,419
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,493
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.1%
Peak was 2008 (21)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,332
1894

Spellings of Sanna

Sanna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 12.9% against Sanna'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 Sanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Sanna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,067,518 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. Sanna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sanna around the world

Where Sanna 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #628
    in 2020
  • France
    1981–2025
    #3,075
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #89
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,577
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1977–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Sanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,753
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,419
Best rank ever
#1,332
1894
Peak year
2008
21 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
731
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Sanna

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

SantannaSanamSanviSanaeSaniaSanyaSansaSanikaSanaiiSaniZannaGinnaSanoraYannaSandaSaniahVennaZennaSennaIannaSanayaSanaiLunnaSanta

Sibling names for Sanna

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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