Sanna
Sanna was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,753 among girls’ names; 731 Americans have been recorded with it since 1894 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sanna mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Sanna is “a female given name”
Originally a diminutive or vernacular form of Susanna or Aleksandra.
/ˈsɑnːɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sanna?
#11,753 among girls’ names, 2025
Sanna rose from #14,246 in 2015 to #11,753 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
21 babies in 2008, the peak
Sanna peaked in 2008, when 21 girls were given it, #6,526 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,753 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,858 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,030 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,664 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,011 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,334 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,573 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,568 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,822 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,790 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,246 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,806 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,199 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,112 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,146 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,087 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,873 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,526 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,918 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,636 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,345 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,703 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,141 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,922 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,636 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,576 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,405 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,311 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,217 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,948 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,329 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,357 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,576 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,893 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,372 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,005 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,182 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,572 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,398 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,360 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,284 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,877 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,269 | 6.5 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,676 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,146 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,754 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,939 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,776 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,497 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,469 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,114 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,624 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,208 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,638 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,750 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,827 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,988 | 5.4 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,274 | 6.8 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,350 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,584 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,750 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,089 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,665 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,202 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,393 | 6.4 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,110 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,258 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,682 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,350 | 5.0 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,897 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,392 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,099 | 5.8 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,178 | 4.5 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,332 | 31.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 656 Americans named Sanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 17 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,085 people named Sanna (1,053 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 610 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 29,718 babies since 1880, Sanna is the eighth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 622 babies (1.3%), again the eighth 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 Sanna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1890-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Katherin | 3,630 | |
| Estrellita | 1,159 | |
| Star | 8,432 | |
| Lidia | 11,326 |
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 Sanna and names like it
- Compare Sanna and SaniyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSanna peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sanna since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Sanna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Sanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.