Sanaya
Sanaya was given to 59 girls in 2025, #2,890 among girls’ names; 1,869 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,860 Americans named Sanaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sanaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sanaya?
#2,890 among girls’ names, 2025
Sanaya fell from #1,828 in 2015 to #2,890 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 63.9 to 36.7 per million.
135 babies in 2016, the peak
Sanaya peaked in 2016, when 135 girls were given it, #1,626 among girls’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,890 | 36.7 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,655 | 40.7 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,220 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,633 | 40.9 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,152 | 31.7 |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,114 | 53.8 |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,369 | 45.3 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,784 | 67.6 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,813 | 66.6 |
| 2016 | 135 | #1,626 | 76.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 114 | #1,828 | 63.9 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,023 | 54.9 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,382 | 43.9 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,798 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,901 | 34.1 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,749 | 36.6 |
| 2009 | 91 | #2,188 | 49.5 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,657 | 37.0 |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,326 | 43.2 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,752 | 34.2 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,817 | 31.9 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,642 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,028 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,153 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,804 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,946 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,165 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,634 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,367 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sanaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sanaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sanaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sanaya, and how old are they?
1,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,869 Americans ever recorded as Sanaya. The median Sanaya alive today is 11 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,367 people named Sanaya (1,365 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,498 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 745 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,110 |
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 Sanaya born?
The states with the most babies named Sanaya are New York, California and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #1,144 | 1.9× |
| California | 9 | #2,250 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,598 | 0.7× |
Where Sanaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sanaya is most over-represented in New York: since 1996 it was given 1.9 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 Sanaya 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 36,250 babies since 1880, Sanaya is the eighth most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 826 babies (7.1%), the seventh 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 Sanaya
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 Sanaya and names like it
- Compare Sanaya and SaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSanaya peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sanaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Sanaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sanaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.