Sahana
Sahana was given to 101 girls in 2025, #1,921 among girls’ names; 2,870 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,850 Americans named Sahana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sahana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sahana?
#1,921 among girls’ names, 2025
Sahana fell from #1,756 in 2015 to #1,921 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 67.2 to 62.8 per million.
160 babies in 2011, the peak
Sahana peaked in 2011, when 160 girls were given it, #1,425 among girls’ names. The 101 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,921 | 62.8 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,778 | 70.4 |
| 2023 | 97 | #2,031 | 60.5 |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,817 | 68.9 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,757 | 71.3 |
| 2020 | 104 | #1,868 | 64.3 |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,677 | 75.1 |
| 2018 | 144 | #1,519 | 84.7 |
| 2017 | 136 | #1,602 | 78.8 |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,811 | 64.9 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 120 | #1,756 | 67.2 |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,734 | 67.7 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,722 | 69.0 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,621 | 76.1 |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,425 | 91.0 |
| 2010 | 150 | #1,499 | 84.4 |
| 2009 | 152 | #1,508 | 82.7 |
| 2008 | 150 | #1,545 | 79.3 |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,711 | 66.6 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,506 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,516 | 37.3 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,428 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,076 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,710 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,999 | 26.7 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,157 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,172 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,309 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,485 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,715 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,380 | 5.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,356 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,040 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,887 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sahana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sahana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sahana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sahana, and how old are they?
2,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,870 Americans ever recorded as Sahana. The median Sahana alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,673 people named Sahana (2,667 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 44 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,520 |
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 Sahana born?
The states with the most babies named Sahana are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #1,146 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 11 | #2,018 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #766 | 2.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,094 | 0.3× |
| New York | 6 | #2,031 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #989 | 1.2× |
Where Sahana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sahana is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1991 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Sahana 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,247 babies since 1880, Sahana is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 101 of their 449 babies (22%), the second most given that year.
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 Sahana
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 Sahana and names like it
- Compare Sahana and SanaaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSahana peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sahana since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Sahana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sahana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.