Savanna
#1,085 for girls in 2025, 222 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #6,976
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 1,500 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 32,974since 1916
Savanna over time
Rank among girls' names. Savanna has never cracked the top 200 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 | #1,085 | 222 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,009 | 254 | — | |
| 2023 | #787 | 358 | — | |
| 2022 | #740 | 391 | — | |
| 2021 | #628 | 472 | — | |
| 2020 | #641 | 452 | — | |
| 2019 | #622 | 482 | — | |
| 2018 | #590 | 518 | — | |
| 2017 | #562 | 541 | — | |
| 2016 | #545 | 574 | — | |
| 2015 | #503 | 632 | — | |
| 2014 | #472 | 673 | — | |
| 2013 | #441 | 694 | — | |
| 2012 | #444 | 704 | — | |
| 2011 | #344 | 929 | — | |
| 2010 | #374 | 845 | — | |
| 2009 | #328 | 1,007 | — | |
| 2008 | #301 | 1,102 | — | |
| 2007 | #246 | 1,414 | — | |
| 2006 | #230 | 1,502 | — | |
| 2005 | #257 | 1,271 | — | |
| 2004 | #273 | 1,198 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #247 | 1,318 | — | |
| 2002 | #235 | 1,345 | — | |
| 2001 | #229 | 1,379 | — | |
| 2000 | #210 | 1,500 | — | |
| 1999 | #232 | 1,389 | — | |
| 1998 | #241 | 1,278 | — | |
| 1997 | #246 | 1,196 | — | |
| 1996 | #250 | 1,135 | — | |
| 1995 | #273 | 1,001 | — | |
| 1994 | #297 | 921 | — | |
| 1993 | #336 | 780 | — | |
| 1992 | #459 | 537 | — | |
| 1991 | #542 | 432 | — | |
| 1990 | #598 | 379 | — | |
| 1989 | #630 | 334 | — | |
| 1988 | #619 | 323 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #517 | 402 | — | |
| 1986 | #514 | 403 | — | |
| 1985 | #654 | 279 | — | |
| 1984 | #909 | 164 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,260 | 99 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
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| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
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| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
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| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
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| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
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| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | — | |
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| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
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| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
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| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Savanna! It came in at #3,552, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1922, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Savanna is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#124 · 1 in 468
- Delaware#161 · 1 in 460
- Idaho#166 · 1 in 614
- Nevada#198 · 1 in 808
- Montana#204 · 1 in 565
Best ever in a state: #70 in Alaska, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #124 | 14 | 1 in 468 |
| Delaware | #161 | 6 | 1 in 460 |
| Idaho | #166 | 10 | 1 in 614 |
| Nevada | #198 | 13 | 1 in 808 |
| Montana | #204 | 5 | 1 in 565 |
| Ohio | #207 | 54 | 1 in 956 |
| Michigan | #216 | 41 | 1 in 1,010 |
| Kentucky | #227 | 20 | 1 in 919 |
| New Mexico | #232 | 9 | 1 in 813 |
| Wisconsin | #232 | 23 | 1 in 1,019 |
| Minnesota | #234 | 25 | 1 in 956 |
| Pennsylvania | #255 | 45 | 1 in 1,174 |
| Virginia | #255 | 31 | 1 in 1,163 |
| Indiana | #266 | 27 | 1 in 1,124 |
| Utah | #269 | 16 | 1 in 1,122 |
| Connecticut | #291 | 10 | 1 in 1,207 |
| Kansas | #295 | 11 | 1 in 1,154 |
| Arkansas | #297 | 10 | 1 in 1,152 |
| Mississippi | #314 | 9 | 1 in 1,237 |
| Iowa | #315 | 10 | 1 in 1,244 |
| Arizona | #322 | 21 | 1 in 1,453 |
| Florida | #326 | 48 | 1 in 1,657 |
| South Carolina | #326 | 13 | 1 in 1,344 |
| Maryland | #330 | 16 | 1 in 1,499 |
| Oklahoma | #342 | 12 | 1 in 1,364 |
| Missouri | #343 | 17 | 1 in 1,591 |
| Nebraska | #344 | 6 | 1 in 1,297 |
| Massachusetts | #353 | 15 | 1 in 1,703 |
| California | #357 | 115 | 1 in 1,805 |
| Illinois | #365 | 34 | 1 in 1,749 |
| Alabama | #375 | 11 | 1 in 1,698 |
| North Carolina | #376 | 24 | 1 in 1,840 |
| Washington | #385 | 18 | 1 in 1,678 |
| New York | #386 | 48 | 1 in 1,933 |
| Colorado | #476 | 11 | 1 in 2,036 |
| Louisiana | #501 | 9 | 1 in 2,170 |
| Texas | #513 | 61 | 1 in 2,555 |
| Georgia | #580 | 18 | 1 in 2,651 |
| Tennessee | #644 | 9 | 1 in 3,290 |
| Oregon | #662 | 5 | 1 in 2,968 |
| New Jersey | #681 | 10 | 1 in 3,696 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
| Hawaii | — | — | — |
| Maine | — | — | — |
| New Hampshire | — | — | — |
| North Dakota | — | — | — |
| Rhode Island | — | — | — |
| South Dakota | — | — | — |
| Vermont | — | — | — |
| Wyoming | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Savanna
- 76 spots since 2024 (#1,009 → #1,085)
- 444 spots since 2020 (#641 → #1,085)
- 582 spots since 2015 (#503 → #1,085)
- Biggest jump: 351 spots in 1984 (#1,260 → #909)
- Biggest drop: 222 spots in 2024 (#787 → #1,009)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2000 at #210 (1,500 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1984–2023
- Highest: 1 in 1,211 girls born in 2000 were named Savanna (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,240 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.5% of all girls named Savanna (13,036) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,552 (1916) | #3,552 |
| 1920s | 16 | #4,376 (1923) | #4,816 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 13 | #4,520 (1958) | #5,303 |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,817 (1965) | #6,159 |
| 1970s | 38 | #6,340 (1977) | #7,030 |
| 1980s | 2,057 | #514 (1986) | #1,890 |
| 1990s | 9,048 | #232 (1999) | #347 |
| 2000s | 13,036 | #210 (2000) | #256 |
| 2010s | 6,592 | #344 (2011) | #490 |
| 2020s | 2,149 | #628 (2021) | #815 |
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.
Savanna in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 1,894 of them was named Savanna, which outranked 98.2% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).