San — #15354 US unisex name

What the Data Says About San

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,868 babies named San between 1911 and 2024, spanning 114 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, San currently holds the #15354 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1950, when 66 babies received it in a single year. San is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 621 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that San performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 460 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, San shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,396 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list San in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for San in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,868 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.