Savanah
Savanah was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,879 among girls’ names; 10,104 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,580 Americans named Savanah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Savanah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Savanah?
#5,879 among girls’ names, 2025
Savanah fell from #1,692 in 2015 to #5,879 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 70.6 to 13.1 per million.
512 babies in 1998, the peak
Savanah peaked in 1998, when 512 girls were given it, #499 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,879 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,447 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,970 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,784 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,705 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,594 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,502 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,581 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,427 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,771 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 126 | #1,692 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 117 | #1,773 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,710 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 179 | #1,319 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 223 | #1,108 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 253 | #997 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 304 | #899 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 346 | #824 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 420 | #696 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 463 | #626 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 407 | #683 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 384 | #700 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 419 | #637 | 0.23 |
| 2002 | 430 | #601 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 397 | #635 | 0.22 |
| 2000 | 438 | #588 | 0.24 |
| 1999 | 431 | #578 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 512 | #499 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 498 | #500 | 0.29 |
| 1996 | 415 | #563 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 428 | #550 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 372 | #605 | 0.21 |
| 1993 | 275 | #755 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 156 | #1,135 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 124 | #1,329 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,537 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 93 | #1,533 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 96 | #1,443 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 130 | #1,141 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 158 | #994 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 110 | #1,247 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,861 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,263 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,465 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,563 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,141 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,750 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,366 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,300 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,714 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,641 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,217 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,327 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,608 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,747 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,385 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,709 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,980 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,652 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,674 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,227 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,868 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,006 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,820 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,065 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,895 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,634 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,568 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,909 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,486 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,560 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,566 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,223 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,510 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,186 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 14 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 9 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,181 | 0.04 |
| 1884 | 8 | #844 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Savanah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Savanah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Savanah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Savanah, and how old are they?
9,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 10,104 Americans ever recorded as Savanah. The median Savanah alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 9,297 people named Savanah (9,270 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,331 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
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 Savanah born?
The states with the most babies named Savanah are California, Texas and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,369 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 902 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 402 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 364 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 338 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 336 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 281 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 231 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 221 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 218 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Savanah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Savanah is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 Savanah 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 Savanah?
Savanah is a less common spelling of Savannah: SSA has recorded 10,104 Savanah and 191,736 Savannah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 242,111 babies since 1880, Savanah is the third most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 2,517 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Savanah
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 Savanah and names like it
- Compare Savanah and SavannahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSavanah peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Savanah since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Savanah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Savanah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.