Sanah
Sanah was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 400 Americans have been recorded with it between 1985 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sanah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sanah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,224, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 2007, the peak
Sanah peaked in 2007, when 29 girls were given it, #5,072 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #13,224 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,963 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,959 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,232 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,357 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,571 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,544 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,681 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,802 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,509 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 15 | #8,142 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,067 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,628 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,627 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,525 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,072 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,163 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,427 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,528 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,139 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,238 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,575 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,403 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,143 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,883 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,131 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,511 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,328 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,091 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,441 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,238 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,011 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,413 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,570 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,332 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,357 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sanah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sanah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sanah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sanah, and how old are they?
An estimated 395 Americans named Sanah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 460 people named Sanah (444 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 377 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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).
How common is the spelling Sanah?
Sanah is a less common spelling of Sanaa: SSA has recorded 400 Sanah and 6,146 Sanaa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,701 babies since 1880, Sanah is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 674 babies recorded by SSA was a Sanah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Sanah
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 Sanah and names like it
- Compare Sanah and SanaaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSanah peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sanah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Sanah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sanah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.