Sovanna
#16,959 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sovanna has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #16,959 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% girls, 15% boys all-time.
Babies named Sovanna, 2025
1 in 663,000
Sovanna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Sovanna over time
In 2025, Sovanna went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Sovanna?
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
- #16,959
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sovanna 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sovanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sovannas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sovanna was born before 2011 — so the typical Sovanna is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 34
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Sovanna 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2017 (7)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Sovanna
Sovanna is not the most common spelling — Savannah is, with 35.8% against Sovanna'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.
Sovanna around the world
Where Sovanna 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.
- France1980–2022#6,656in 2022
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Sovanna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Sovanna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sovanna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.