Sanad
Sanad was given to 145 boys in 2025, #1,332 among boys’ names; 993 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sanad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sanad?
#1,332 among boys’ names, 2025
Sanad rose from #4,268 in 2015 to #1,332 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 84.9 per million.
145 babies in 2025, the peak
Sanad peaked in 2025, when 145 boys were given it, #1,332 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 139 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 145 | #1,332 | 84.9 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,362 | 80.7 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,478 | 71.3 |
| 2022 | 89 | #1,823 | 51.0 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,216 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,540 | 29.5 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,985 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,933 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,240 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,967 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,268 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,219 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,585 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,745 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,628 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,660 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,151 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,442 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,791 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,888 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,209 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,888 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,181 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,314 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,806 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,672 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,994 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,959 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,390 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,861 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,856 | 4.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,434 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sanad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sanad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sanad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sanad, and how old are they?
An estimated 984 Americans named Sanad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 468 people named Sanad (10 women and girls, 458 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 392 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,058 babies since 1880, Sanad is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 145 of their 145 babies (100%), 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 Sanad
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 Sanad and names like it
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