Sahaana
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAH-ha-na
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Sahaana is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “patience; endurance”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Sahaana mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Sahana
“patience; endurance”
Sahana is also the name of a raga in Carnatic classical music.
Meaning borrowed from Sahana.
Is Sahaana a girl's or a boy's name?
Sahaana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sahaana in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Sahaana, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2008, with 6 girls.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Sahaana or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Sahana 13
- Sahaana 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Sahaana in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
How popular is Sahaana in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Sahaana, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2018, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Sahaana in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 106 girls in the US were given Sahaana or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,627, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
- Sahana 101
- Sahaana 5
Sahaana in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
Names like Sahaana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Khadija, Safiya, Amira, Hiba, Sumayyah, Halima, Rahma, Nusaybah, Sama
Other spellings of Sahaana
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Arya, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Aadhya, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sahaana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sahaana, updated 20 October 2026.