Sapna — girls' name
551 babies named Sapna in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1985. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Sapna was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Sapna in 1985 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sapna
The Social Security Administration has registered 551 babies named Sapna between 1970 and 2023, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sapna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sapna performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 185 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sapna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sapna in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sapna 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 551 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.
Sapna at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sapna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1970
- Peak year (1985)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 54 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
551 total births across 54 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1985 with 25 births in a single year.
Sapna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 185 births that decade — 34% of Sapna's all-time total
Sapna decade highlights
- Peak decade 185 births
- Runner-up 148 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Sapna's strongest decade
185 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Sapna by state
Where Sapna concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 27 | 4.9% |
| #2 | New Jersey | | 6 | 1.1% |
| #3 | Texas | | 5 | 0.9% |
27 of 551 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 4.9% of nationwide
- New Jersey 1.1% of nationwide
- Texas 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1970–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.