Name Awesome

Sapna

#16,849 in 2025Girls' name

Sleep, sleeping, through सपना

Sapna has been given to 556 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #16,849 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Sapna, 2025

1 in 663,000

Sapna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sapna: meaning, origin, and history

Sleep, sleeping, through सपना

Hindi

What Sapna means

Sapna belongs to the name family reached through Sapna → सपना → *swápnas. Its meaning is “sleep, sleeping”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sapna is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Sapna comes through Hindi सपना.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include सपन, सपना and *swápnas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 556 girls were recorded with the name Sapna between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1985; its best national rank was #3,365 in 1978.

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 Sapna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,849
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sapna 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sapna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sapnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sapna was born before 1985 — so the typical Sapna is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
556
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (185).

Is Sapna 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
20.0%
Peak was 1985 (25)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,365
1978

Spellings of Sapna

Sapna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 39.2% against Sapna's 0.02%.

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 Sapna is used

Across 1910–2025, Sapna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 861,352 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Sapna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sapna around the world

Where Sapna 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
    1996–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • France
    2007–2007
    #6,402
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1994–2006
    #2,939
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sapna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,849
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,365
1978
Peak year
1985
25 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
556
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Sapna

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

SaphireSapphiraSaphyreSaphiraSaphyraSaprinaSapirSaphiaSapphyreSaphinaSapphireSapheraSapanaSaphroniaSwapnaSaphirSaphariSapheriaSaphirahSaphirra

Sibling names for Sapna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Sapna

Top names of 1985, Sapna's peak yearThe 1980s in fullOther names that peaked in 1978Girls' names starting with SHindi Girl NamesHindi Names