Sanaa

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Sanaa: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #496 in 2001, and it stood at #1,894 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#496highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1005
1997	#820
1998	#737
1999	#691
2000	#571
2001	#496
2002	#585
2003	#619
2004	#667
2005	#596
2006	#890
2007	#716
2008	#767
2009	#897
2010	#1125
2011	#937
2012	#1075
2013	#1324
2014	#1562
2015	#1549
2016	#1749
2017	#1995
2018	#1490
2019	#2643
2020	#3899
2021	#1962
2022	#2325
2023	#2689
2024	#1894

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 England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1005 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #496 among girls in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1894 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Sanaa by decade in England and Wales · 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 Sanaa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	112	4 of 10	28
2000sbusiest	461	10 of 10	46
2010s	224	10 of 10	22
2020s	54	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 46 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sanaa appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #496 in England and Wales in 2001.

Sanaa'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	#1894	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1490	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1549	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1075	32	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#937	38	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1125	29	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#897	37	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#767	45	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#716	47	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#890	33	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#596	54	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#667	44	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#619	47	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#585	48	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#496	59	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#571	47	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#691	34	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#737	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1005	20	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #496, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 59 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,894position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
59births registered in its largest year, 200150 to 99 births →

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.

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Sanam · #1450, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Maariyah · #498, 29y
Aamina · #499, 29y
Roshan · #493, 29y
Rehaan · #492, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adina · #496, 29y
Caio · #496, 28y
Jadine · #496, 13y
Rohaan · #496, 28y

Sanaa was ranked #496 in England and Wales · Girls in 2001. 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.

Sanaa 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 Sanaa without appearing here.

Sanaa moved ahead of

Levi Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.
Donna Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #4634.
Lorraine Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #4634.

Moved ahead of Sanaa

Ellinor Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #2843.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1962 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2325 and #1452.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2325 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #1959.
Marilyn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2325 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #2063.

Moved the opposite way to Sanaa

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sanaa went from #1005 to #1894 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sanaa went from #1005 to #1894 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sanaa went from #1005 to #1894 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sanaa went from #1005 to #1894 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Sanaa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sanaa went from #1005 to #1894 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sanaa went from #1005 to #1894 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sanaa went from #1005 to #1894 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sanaa went from #1005 to #1894 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #496 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sanaa

Sanaa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sanaa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Sanaa at a glance

Sanaa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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