Sanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanna är ursprungligen en smekform till → Susanna som först efter 1970 har blivit vanlig som officiellt förnamn
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sanə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 250(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 899
- NONorway1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250 (inferred from the name graph)
22,284 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sanna är ursprungligen en smekform till → Susanna som först efter 1970 har blivit vanlig som officiellt förnamn. En känd namnbärare är artisten Sanna Nielsen (f. 1984). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 11 augusti.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #60 | 22,284 | 1 in 250 | 26K | Sanna | 120 |
| SE Sweden | #316 | 11,353 | 1 in 899 | 11K | Sanna | 85 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sanna | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,996 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.9K | Sanna | 23 |
| US United States | — | 1,085 | 1 in 307K | 1.1K | Sanna | 96 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 111 | Sanna | 9 |
22,284 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-stat-nimed register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sanna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma arcaica de zanna; apelativo por dentadura peculiar ou caninos longos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, ) Sanne: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Scandinavian: short form of SUSANNA . It may be favoured by association with the Swedish and Norwegian adjective sann true.
as a word
In pi, past participle of sandati (“to flow”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kl, down distal absolutive; that down a long distance, he/she/it down there.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sanna Töringeb. 1952SESwedish author
- Sanna-Kaisa Palob. 1960FIFinnish actress
- Sanna Englundb. 1975DEGerman actress
- Laura Voutilainenb. 1975FInot in their usual nameFinnish pop singer
- Sanna Sténb. 1977FIFinnish rower
- Sanna Lundellb. 1978SESwedish television host
- Sanna Nielsenb. 1984SESwedish singer and television presenter
- Sanna Marinb. 1985FIPrime Minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023
- Sanna Nyassib. 1989GMGambian footballer
- Sanna Solberg-Isaksenb. 1990NONorwegian handball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 78 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26K | #90 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 22K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11K | #365 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 8.9K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 6.9K | #529 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,703 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 111 | #692 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 68 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32 | #11,703 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #20,143 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #25,541 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sanna?
- A machine transcription gives /sanə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Sanna mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanna är ursprungligen en smekform till → Susanna som först efter 1970 har blivit vanlig som officiellt förnamn.
- In which country does Sanna have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Sanna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanna.
- Where is Sanna most common?
- Sanna is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 250 people carrying it.
- Is Sanna a male or female name?
- Sanna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Sanna?
- In the etymology graph, Susan, Susana and Sue are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Sanna?
- In Finland, the national register counted 22,284 people named Sanna, about 1 in 250 residents.
- How common is Sanna compared with other names?
- In Finland, Sanna is the 60th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sannaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sanna” — the 60th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.