Sanai
#1,373 for girls in 2025, 160 births · Last seen for boys in 2021 at #12,146
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 297 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,236since 1994
Sanai over time
Rank among girls' names. Sanai has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,373 | 160 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,579 | 133 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,603 | 130 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,540 | 139 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,498 | 141 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,585 | 134 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,554 | 139 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,600 | 136 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,425 | 162 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,477 | 155 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,624 | 132 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,328 | 176 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,326 | 177 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #1,111 | 222 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,027 | 243 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #966 | 276 | — | |
| 2008 | #922 | 297 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,045 | 251 | — | |
| 2006 | #984 | 264 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,244 | 182 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,191 | 188 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,509 | 129 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #2,352 | 68 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
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| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sanai! It came in at #13,430, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1999, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sanai
- 206 spots since 2024 (#1,579 → #1,373)
- 121 spots since 2020 (#1,494 → #1,373)
- 104 spots since 2015 (#1,477 → #1,373)
- Biggest jump: 260 spots in 2006 (#1,244 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 61 spots in 2007 (#984 → #1,045)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2008 at #922 (297 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2008–2009
- Highest: 1 in 6,367 girls born in 2008 were named Sanai (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,045 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.3% of all girls named Sanai (1,709) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #13,430 (1994) | #13,430 |
| 2000s | 1,709 | #922 (2008) | #2,318 |
| 2010s | 1,676 | #1,027 (2010) | #1,406 |
| 2020s | 846 | #1,373 (2025) | #1,515 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sanai in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 12,238 of them was named Sanai, which outranked 91.4% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,548Lori140
- #1,548Milania140
- #1,548Salome140
- #1,554Sanai139
- #1,554Aadya139
- #1,554Anyla139
- #1,554Arizona139
- #1,568Annaliese138
- #1,568Aryah138
- #1,568Dariana138
Tied with 13 names at #1,554; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.