Savana
Savana was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,878 among girls’ names; 5,436 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,360 Americans named Savana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Savana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Savana?
#5,878 among girls’ names, 2025
Savana fell from #2,404 in 2015 to #5,878 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.1 to 13.1 per million.
317 babies in 2000, the peak
Savana peaked in 2000, when 317 girls were given it, #733 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,878 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,005 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,543 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,815 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,072 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,441 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,710 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,734 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,774 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,662 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #2,404 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 83 | #2,266 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,504 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,012 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,426 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,465 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 165 | #1,423 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 212 | #1,205 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 223 | #1,149 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 279 | #940 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 291 | #873 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 272 | #896 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 294 | #830 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 278 | #838 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 288 | #816 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 317 | #733 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 275 | #796 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 238 | #887 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 215 | #924 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 178 | #1,043 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 153 | #1,147 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 106 | #1,490 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 111 | #1,448 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,766 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 67 | #2,045 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,510 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,027 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,477 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,476 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,071 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,348 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,125 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,743 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,854 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,806 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Savana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Savana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Savana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Savana, and how old are they?
5,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,436 Americans ever recorded as Savana. The median Savana alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 5,231 people named Savana (5,216 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,184 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 980 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 660 |
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 Savana born?
The states with the most babies named Savana are California, Texas and Florida, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 596 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 419 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 275 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 156 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 152 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 148 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 145 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 126 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 117 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 115 | not ranked | 0.7× |
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 Savana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Savana?
Savana is a less common spelling of Savannah: SSA has recorded 5,436 Savana and 191,736 Savannah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 242,153 babies since 1880, Savana is the fourth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 2,517 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Savana
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 Savana and names like it
- Compare Savana and SavannahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSavana peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Savana since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Savana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Savana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.