Savanna
Savanna was given to 222 girls in 2025, #1,090 among girls’ names; 32,989 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,500 Americans named Savanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Savanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Savanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Savanna is “a female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage, variant of Savannah.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Savanna?
#1,090 among girls’ names, 2025
Savanna fell from #503 in 2015 to #1,090 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.35 to 0.14 per 1,000.
1,502 babies in 2006, the peak
Savanna peaked in 2006, when 1,502 girls were given it, #230 among girls’ names. The 222 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 222 | #1,090 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 254 | #1,011 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 358 | #789 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 391 | #740 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 472 | #628 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 452 | #641 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 482 | #622 | 0.29 |
| 2018 | 518 | #591 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 541 | #562 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 574 | #545 | 0.32 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 632 | #503 | 0.35 |
| 2014 | 673 | #472 | 0.38 |
| 2013 | 694 | #442 | 0.40 |
| 2012 | 704 | #445 | 0.40 |
| 2011 | 929 | #345 | 0.53 |
| 2010 | 845 | #374 | 0.48 |
| 2009 | 1,007 | #328 | 0.55 |
| 2008 | 1,102 | #302 | 0.58 |
| 2007 | 1,414 | #246 | 0.74 |
| 2006 | 1,502 | #230 | 0.79 |
| 2005 | 1,271 | #258 | 0.69 |
| 2004 | 1,198 | #274 | 0.65 |
| 2003 | 1,318 | #247 | 0.72 |
| 2002 | 1,345 | #236 | 0.75 |
| 2001 | 1,379 | #230 | 0.77 |
| 2000 | 1,500 | #210 | 0.83 |
| 1999 | 1,389 | #232 | 0.78 |
| 1998 | 1,278 | #241 | 0.72 |
| 1997 | 1,196 | #246 | 0.69 |
| 1996 | 1,135 | #250 | 0.65 |
| 1995 | 1,001 | #273 | 0.57 |
| 1994 | 921 | #298 | 0.52 |
| 1993 | 780 | #336 | 0.43 |
| 1992 | 537 | #459 | 0.29 |
| 1991 | 432 | #544 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 379 | #597 | 0.20 |
| 1989 | 334 | #630 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 323 | #620 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 402 | #518 | 0.23 |
| 1986 | 403 | #515 | 0.23 |
| 1985 | 279 | #656 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 164 | #913 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 99 | #1,263 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,236 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,217 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,923 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,176 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,758 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,032 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,637 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,888 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,870 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Savanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Savanna has been given almost only to girls: 15 boys in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Savanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Savanna, and how old are they?
32,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 32,989 Americans ever recorded as Savanna. The median Savanna alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 27,639 people named Savanna (27,591 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 30,609 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 19,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,220 |
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 Savanna born?
The states with the most babies named Savanna are California, Texas and Florida, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #1,147 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,308 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 17 | #951 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 14 | #564 | 0.5× |
| New York | 11 | #1,300 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #916 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,019 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,189 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,043 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 7 | #896 | 1.0× |
Where Savanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Savanna is most over-represented in Utah: since 1916 it was given 1.5 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 Savanna 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 242,153 babies since 1880, Savanna is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 222 of their 2,517 babies (8.8%), again the second 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 Savanna
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 Savanna and names like it
- Compare Savanna and SavannahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSavanna peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Savanna since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Savanna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Savanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Savanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.