Sanya

Where Sanya comes from

Transliteration of Russian Са́ня (Sánja), diminutive of Алекса́ндра (Aleksándra) and Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr). In some cases possibly from Serbo-Croatian Сања and Sanja.
— Wiktionary's entry for Sanya
  • Russian
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #4,918 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2007
    Peak, #1,908
    108 babies named Sanya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,425.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Russian.
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.