Sovanna — unisex name
29 babies named Sovanna in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Sovanna was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Sovanna in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sovanna
The Social Security Administration has registered 29 babies named Sovanna between 1986 and 2021, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sovanna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Sovanna is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6 additional births since 1989.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sovanna performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sovanna shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sovanna 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 29 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.
Sovanna at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sovanna popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1986
- Peak year (2017)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
29 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 7 births in a single year.
Sovanna popularity over time — boys
6 total births recorded since 1989 (Sovanna as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Sovanna accounts for 17% of total recorded use across both genders.
Sovanna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 12 births that decade — 41% of Sovanna's all-time total
Sovanna decade highlights
- Peak decade 12 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Sovanna's strongest decade
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
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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, 1986–2021 (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.