Fun Facts About the Name Savanna
- More than 32 thousand babies named Savanna: U.S. records list 32,982 babies given the name Savanna from 1880 through 2025. Even 15 boys received the name Savanna - about 1 boy for every 2,198 girls.
What Does the Name Savanna Mean?
Savanna is a variant spelling of Savannah, a girl's name taken from the English word for a flat, grassy plain. That word entered English from Spanish sabana, which is generally traced to zabana or sabana in Taíno, an Arawakan language of the Caribbean islands. Its literal sense is a treeless or lightly wooded grassland of the kind found in parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America. The name's meaning is therefore the landscape term itself, not a translation of a personal name from Hebrew, Greek, or Latin. The spelling Savanna matches one of the two common English spellings of the grassland word.
Savanna Name History & Origins
The landscape word came into English in the 1500s by way of Spanish, and English writers used both savanna and savannah for tropical grasslands. The city of Savannah, Georgia, founded in 1733, was named for the Savannah River. The river's name is of uncertain origin; it may come from a Native American group recorded as the Savannah, a people sometimes linked to the Shawnee. The place name helped establish Savannah firmly in English usage.
As a given name, Savanna is a spelling variant of Savannah, with the same pronunciation and meaning; the two differ only in the final letter. The shorter spelling follows the form of the landscape word and has been used alongside the longer one. Savannah and Savanna are given to girls in English-speaking countries, drawing on the word and, for many families, on the Georgia city.
How Popular is the Name Savanna?
Savanna recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2006. Its best rank was #210 in 2000.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,090 | 222 | 0.0138% |
| 2024 | #1,007 | 254 | 0.0157% |
| 2023 | #795 | 355 | 0.0222% |
| 2022 | #740 | 391 | 0.0239% |
| 2021 | #628 | 471 | 0.0287% |
| 2020 | #641 | 452 | 0.0280% |
| 2019 | #622 | 482 | 0.0287% |
| 2018 | #591 | 518 | 0.0305% |
| 2017 | #562 | 541 | 0.0313% |
| 2016 | #545 | 574 | 0.0324% |
| 2015 | #503 | 631 | 0.0354% |
| 2014 | #472 | 673 | 0.0377% |
| 2013 | #442 | 694 | 0.0396% |
| 2012 | #445 | 703 | 0.0399% |
| 2011 | #345 | 929 | 0.0528% |
| 2010 | #374 | 844 | 0.0475% |
| 2009 | #328 | 1,007 | 0.0548% |
| 2008 | #301 | 1,102 | 0.0583% |
| 2007 | #246 | 1,414 | 0.0736% |
| 2006 | #230 | 1,502 | 0.0790% |
| 2005 | #258 | 1,271 | 0.0688% |
| 2004 | #274 | 1,198 | 0.0652% |
| 2003 | #247 | 1,318 | 0.0721% |
| 2002 | #236 | 1,345 | 0.0749% |
| 2001 | #230 | 1,379 | 0.0766% |
| 2000 | #210 | 1,500 | 0.0826% |
| 1999 | #232 | 1,389 | 0.0783% |
| 1998 | #241 | 1,278 | 0.0723% |
| 1997 | #246 | 1,196 | 0.0687% |
| 1996 | #250 | 1,135 | 0.0647% |
| 1995 | #273 | 1,001 | 0.0569% |
| 1994 | #298 | 921 | 0.0516% |
| 1993 | #336 | 780 | 0.0431% |
| 1992 | #459 | 537 | 0.0291% |
| 1991 | #544 | 432 | 0.0230% |
| 1990 | #598 | 379 | 0.0200% |
| 1989 | #631 | 334 | 0.0181% |
| 1988 | #620 | 323 | 0.0181% |
| 1987 | #518 | 402 | 0.0231% |
| 1986 | #515 | 403 | 0.0235% |
| 1985 | #656 | 279 | 0.0162% |
| 1984 | #913 | 164 | 0.0097% |
| 1983 | #1,263 | 99 | 0.0059% |
| 1982 | #3,237 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 1981 | #6,218 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1980 | #4,924 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1979 | #7,179 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1978 | #8,342 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1977 | #6,760 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1975 | #7,782 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1972 | #8,034 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1969 | #7,283 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1967 | #6,637 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1965 | #6,384 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1958 | #4,828 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1957 | #6,866 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1925 | #5,661 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1923 | #4,889 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1921 | #5,750 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1916 | #3,872 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | #7,425 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1988 | #8,293 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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