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Zanna

#14,904 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Suzanna

Zanna has been given to 635 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #14,904 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Zanna, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zanna: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Suzanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zanna means

Zanna is a short form of Suzanna.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zanna is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈzæn.ə/ for Zanna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zanna → Suzanna → Susanna. The family’s meaning is “lily”, recorded in English with the source elements šōšannā.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Suzanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 635 girls were recorded with the name Zanna between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,232 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,530 in 2020 to #14,904 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,710 in 2015 to #14,904 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 Zanna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,904
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zanna 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zanna was born before 2006 — so the typical Zanna is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
598
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (189).

Is Zanna 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
−6,479
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,374
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,194
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.4%
Peak was 2014 (28)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,232
1994

Spellings of Zanna

Zanna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 17.7% against Zanna'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 Zanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Zanna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,001,597 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. Zanna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zanna around the world

Where Zanna 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
    1997–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2014
    #6,490
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1975–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Zanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,904
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,374
Best rank ever
#4,232
1994
Peak year
2014
28 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
635
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Zanna

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

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Sibling names for Zanna

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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