Sanai Girl
How popular is Sanai?
#1,373 girl name in 2025
160 baby girls were named Sanai in the US in 2025, making it the 1373rd most popular girl name.
Sanai popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,373 for girls (▲ 206 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 160 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+3% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,477 in 2015, #1,494 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2008 (297 girls) |
| Highest rank | #922 in 2008 |
| First recorded | 1994 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sanai counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Sanai family of names ranked #785 for girls in 2025 (#815 the year before), with 319 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sanai | 160 | 50% |
| Sana | 151 | 47% |
| Sanna | 8 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sanai is most popular
Babies named Sanai per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Georgia: 0.3 per 1,000 (76 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.3 per 1,000 (23 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.2 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- New York: 0.2 per 1,000 (75 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (79 girls)
Sanai by decade
Girl names about as popular as Sanai
Questions
- Is Sanai a boy or girl name?
- Sanai is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sanai were girls.
- How popular is the name Sanai?
- 160 baby girls were named Sanai in the US in 2025, making it the 1373rd most popular girl name.
- When was Sanai most popular?
- Sanai peaked in 2008, when 297 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #922 in 2008.
- How many people are named Sanai?
- 4,261 babies have been named Sanai in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,234 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Sanai most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sanai was most common in Georgia, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.