Savana
#5,878 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Savana has been given to 5,436 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #5,878 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 317 recorded.
Babies named Savana, 2025
1 in 158,000
Savana over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Savana?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 76,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,878
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Savana sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Savana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Savanas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Savana was born before 2003 — so the typical Savana is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 48.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,426
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (2,619).
Is Savana 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
- −873
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,437
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,474
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.27×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.6%
- Peak was 2000 (317)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.2% average annual change
Spellings of Savana
Savana is not the most common spelling — Savannah is, with 33.0% against Savana's 0.94%.
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 Savana is used
Across 1910–2025, Savana was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 42,762 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 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. Savana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Savana around the world
Where Savana 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,705in 2025
- Scotland2015–2015#806in 2015
- France1995–2024#5,612in 2024
- Canada1991–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia1996–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.
Savana by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Savana
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Savana
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Savana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Savana
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.