Sana

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sana: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sana: Recorded since 1975, it reached #172 in 2002, and it stood at #348 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
83times a registrar ranked it
51years from first to last
#172highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#281
1997	#306
1998	#265
1999	#249
2000	#235
2001	#187
2002	#172
2003	#231
2004	#233
2005	#286
2006	#299
2007	#266
2008	#298
2009	#264
2010	#303
2011	#332
2012	#397
2013	#408
2014	#484
2015	#496
2016	#529
2017	#493
2018	#633
2019	#616
2020	#514
2021	#544
2022	#462
2023	#637
2024	#686

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 43 of the 51 years from 1975 to 2025.

In 2025: #348 among girls in Norway, #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1975–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #621 among girls in Norway in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #172 among girls in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #348 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Sana appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 43 years beginning in 1975, and has registered 349 births with the name.

Sana across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sana's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#621 (1975)	#273 (1984)	#348 (2025)	43 of 51	349 (1975–2025)	17 (1984)
England and Wales · Girls	#281 (1996)	#172 (2002)	#686 (2024)	29 of 29	3,765 (1996–2024)	254 (2002)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#910 (2010)	#544 (2025)	#544 (2025)	8 of 16	33 (2010–2025)	6 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#3036 (2000)	#3036 (2000)	#3651 (2004)	2 of 5	6 (2000–2004)	3 (2000)

Sana by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sana in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	4	1 of 10	4
1980sbusiest	89	8 of 10	11
1990s	78	10 of 10	8
2000s	75	10 of 10	8
2010s	67	9 of 10	7
2020s	36	5 of 10	7

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Sana appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1975 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #172 in England and Wales in 2002.

Sana's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#686	55	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#637	57	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#462	91	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#544	74	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#514	78	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#616	64	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#633	64	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#493	88	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#529	80	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#496	87	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#484	88	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#408	104	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#397	117	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#332	145	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#303	156	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#264	183	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#298	157	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#266	181	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#299	150	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#286	147	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#233	196	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#231	196	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#172	254	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#187	219	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#235	175	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#249	162	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#265	146	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#306	118	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#281	133	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#348	10	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#296	13	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#527	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#462	5	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#494	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#456	6	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#412	8	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#510	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#493	6	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#422	9	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#497	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#336	14	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#463	8	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#577	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#454	8	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#436	9	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#501	7	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#471	7	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#496	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#437	8	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#581	5	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#297	14	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#524	6	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#531	6	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#477	7	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#404	9	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#544	6	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#367	11	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#454	8	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#667	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#364	12	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#525	7	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#495	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#405	11	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#429	10	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#440	10	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#533	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#409	11	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#273	17	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#401	10	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#334	13	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#621	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1975 and 2025, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #172, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 254 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 49 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Samy · #764, 29y
San · #1951, 20y
Sanaa · #496, 29y
Sanad · #535, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Isa · #170, 42y
Kamila · #176, 50y
Lia · #177, 43y
Patrycja · #180, 47y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Carrie · #170, 49y
Dearbhail · #174, 29y
Riona · #169, 49y
Kamila · #176, 50y

Sana was ranked #172 in England and Wales · Girls in 2002. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sana and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sana without appearing here.

Sana moved ahead of

Cassandra Compare
In 2024 they stood at #736 and #441 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #544 and #885.
Ida Compare
In 2024 they stood at #727 and #625 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #544 and #885.
Samantha Compare
In 2024 they stood at #736 and #631 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #544 and #885.
Louise Compare
In 2023 they stood at #637 and #627 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #686 and #952.

Moved ahead of Sana

Sophia Compare
In 2001 they stood at #297 and #298 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #581 and #261.
Amelia Compare
In 2001 they stood at #297 and #368 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #581 and #265.
Amanda Compare
In 1985 they stood at #409 and #433 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #533 and #253.
Iben Compare
In 1995 they stood at #367 and #450 in Norway · Girls; by 1996 that had become #544 and #307.

Moved the opposite way to Sana

Anita Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sana went from #621 to #348 while Anita went from #9 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sana went from #621 to #348 while Anne went from #2 to #159.
Aud Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sana went from #621 to #348 while Aud went from #169 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sana went from #621 to #348 while Bjørg went from #142 to #369.

Moved the same way as Sana

Ada Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sana went from #621 to #348 and Ada from #535 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sana went from #621 to #348 and Alma from #417 to #8.
Annie Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sana went from #621 to #348 and Annie from #420 to #214.
Astrid Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sana went from #621 to #348 and Astrid from #79 to #9.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1975 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #172 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sana

Sana at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sana across 4 official records

Sana by decade in Norway · Girls

Sana appears in

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Sana at a glance

Sana across 4 official records

Sana by decade in Norway · Girls

Sana appears in

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Sana moved ahead of

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