Zanna
Zanna was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,904 among girls’ names; 635 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zanna?
#14,904 among girls’ names, 2025
Zanna fell from #6,710 in 2015 to #14,904 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 3.7 per million.
28 babies in 2014, the peak
Zanna peaked in 2014, when 28 girls were given it, #5,022 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,904 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,425 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,042 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,363 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,272 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,530 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 17 | #7,013 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,602 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,277 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,786 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,710 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 28 | #5,022 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,361 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,566 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,559 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,769 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,331 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,343 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,079 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,399 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,489 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,820 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,787 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,428 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,087 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #15,002 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,327 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 12 | #8,007 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,325 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,786 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,034 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,232 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,573 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,591 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,499 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,402 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,440 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,105 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,814 | 4.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,061 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,618 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,855 | 3.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,238 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,402 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,078 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,143 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,558 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,829 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #6,035 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,681 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,240 | 3.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #5,019 | 4.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,433 | 4.3 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,456 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,758 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 593 Americans named Zanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 646 people named Zanna (641 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 541 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,269 babies since 1880, Zanna is the eighth most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 489 babies (1.2%), again the eighth 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 Zanna
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 Zanna and names like it
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- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Zanna.
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