Sanai
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Persian
- US rank, 2025
- #1,373 for girls
Sanai is a girls' name of Persian origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,373rd for girls in the US (160 babies).
What does Sanai mean?
Persian
A female given name from Persian.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Sanai a girl's or a boy's name?
Sanai is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 160 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sanai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,373among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 160about 1 in 10,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 160 girls in the US were named Sanai, making it the 1,373rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,494th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 297 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had more girls named Sanai than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Sanai in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 174 girls in the US were given Sanai or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,164, up from #1,373 for this spelling alone.
- Sanai 160
- Sanaii 9
- Sanaai 5
Sanai in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 160 | #1,373 |
| 2024 | 133 | #1,579 |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,603 |
| 2022 | 139 | #1,540 |
| 2021 | 141 | #1,498 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,494 |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,585 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,554 |
| 2017 | 136 | #1,600 |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,425 |
| 2015 | 155 | #1,477 |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,624 |
| 2013 | 176 | #1,328 |
| 2012 | 177 | #1,326 |
| 2011 | 222 | #1,111 |
| 2010 | 243 | #1,027 |
| 2009 | 276 | #966 |
| 2008 | 297 | #922 |
| 2007 | 251 | #1,045 |
| 2006 | 264 | #984 |
| 2005 | 182 | #1,244 |
| 2004 | 188 | #1,190 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,508 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,349 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,087 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
Names like Sanai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Saanvi Sarai Sariyah Salem Safa Siya Salma Kaliyah Sarahi Selah Raya Aaliyah
Other spellings of Sanai
Names related to Sanai
More Persian names
Jasper Esther Jasmine Casper Cyrus Yasmin Darius Zorawar Kiyan Rumi Yasmine Kasper Mahnoor Dario Arian Arman
Sources
Figures from 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, “Sanai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sanai, updated 20 October 2026.