Hosanna
Hosanna was given to 145 girls in 2025, #1,480 among girls’ names; 1,875 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,860 Americans named Hosanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hosanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hosanna?
#1,480 among girls’ names, 2025
Hosanna rose from #2,976 in 2015 to #1,480 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 32.5 to 90.2 per million.
145 babies in 2025, the peak
Hosanna peaked in 2025, when 145 girls were given it, #1,480 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 134 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 145 | #1,480 | 90.2 |
| 2024 | 134 | #1,578 | 82.7 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,860 | 67.3 |
| 2022 | 82 | #2,284 | 50.0 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,601 | 40.8 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,914 | 61.9 |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,078 | 54.2 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,623 | 38.8 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,616 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 77 | #2,418 | 43.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,976 | 32.5 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,501 | 40.3 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,610 | 38.8 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,665 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,776 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,275 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,133 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,345 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,287 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,391 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,666 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,204 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,851 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,968 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,657 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,570 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,297 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,846 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,890 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,353 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,812 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,286 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,710 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,699 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,356 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,241 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,143 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,612 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,577 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,864 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,819 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,471 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,447 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,091 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,503 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,340 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,310 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,819 | 4.6 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,599 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hosanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hosanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hosanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hosanna, and how old are they?
1,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,875 Americans ever recorded as Hosanna. The median Hosanna alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,268 people named Hosanna (1,238 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,252 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 24 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 197 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 508 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,130 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hosanna born?
The states with the most babies named Hosanna are Texas, Florida and Ohio, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,107 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,364 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #910 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,122 | 0.3× |
| California | 7 | #2,593 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #933 | 0.8× |
| Kansas | 6 | #534 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,121 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,257 | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #901 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hosanna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,957 babies since 1880, Hosanna is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 145 of their 155 babies (94%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hosanna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hosanna and names like it
- Compare Hosanna and HosnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHosanna peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hosanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Hosanna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hosanna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.