# Sanai (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sanai/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Persian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,261 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 25 / 4,236 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 222 | 1,114 |
| 2012 | 177 | 1,330 |
| 2013 | 176 | 1,335 |
| 2014 | 132 | 1,633 |
| 2015 | 155 | 1,485 |
| 2016 | 162 | 1,432 |
| 2017 | 136 | 1,604 |
| 2018 | 139 | 1,566 |
| 2019 | 134 | 1,595 |
| 2020 | 143 | 1,502 |
| 2021 | 141 | 1,505 |
| 2022 | 139 | 1,545 |
| 2023 | 130 | 1,610 |
| 2024 | 133 | 1,588 |
| 2025 | 160 | 1,378 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | 12,426 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,901 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,856 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,696 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,742 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.