# Sanna (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sanna/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 731 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 731 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 386, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 8 | 13,153 |
| 2012 | 10 | 11,118 |
| 2013 | 6 | 16,204 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,812 |
| 2015 | 7 | 14,251 |
| 2016 | 13 | 8,793 |
| 2017 | 11 | 9,826 |
| 2018 | 7 | 13,573 |
| 2019 | 7 | 13,578 |
| 2020 | 13 | 8,339 |
| 2021 | 9 | 11,016 |
| 2022 | 18 | 6,669 |
| 2023 | 9 | 11,035 |
| 2024 | 12 | 8,863 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,757 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 10 | 2,326 |
| 2010 | 15 | 1,815 |
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 11 | 2,338 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,945 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,711 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

## People named Sanna

- Sanna Stén, Finnish rower
- Sanna Valkonen, association football player
- Sanna Talonen, Finnish footballer
- Sanna Nyassi, Gambian footballer
- Sanna-Leena Perunka, Finnish biathlete
- Sanna Lankosaari, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
- Sanna Englund, German actress
- Sanna Antikainen, Finnish politician

## 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.