Savannah
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Savannah är som förnamn ett lån av de likalydande ortnamnen (på en flod och flera städer) i södra USA, kanske inspirerat av vanliga förnamn som Anna och Hannah
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Savannah is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 31K
- GFFrench Guiana≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
149,937 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
French Guiana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Savannah är som förnamn ett lån av de likalydande ortnamnen (på en flod och flera städer) i södra USA, kanske inspirerat av vanliga förnamn som Anna och Hannah. Det har varit populärt som flicknamn i USA från 1980-talet och framåt, och har fått en viss spridning i Sverige under de senaste årtiondena.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Savannah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 149,937 | 1 in 2.2K | 150K | Savannah | 477 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 20 | Savannah | 165 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 226 | Savannah | 129 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 11 | Savannah | 172 |
| FR France | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 2.4K | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 841 | 1 in 12K | 841 | — | 25 |
| GF French Guiana | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 5 | — | — |
| MQ Martinique | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 5 | — | — |
| KY Cayman Islands | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Savannah | 4 |
149,937 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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)
Savannah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, city, GA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Savana
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Savanna Samsonb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- Savannah Guthrieb. 1971USAmerican journalist and attorney (born 1971)
- Savannah Welchb. 1984USAmerican actress, singer
- Savannah Goldb. 1984GBBritish former pornographic actress (1984-2011)
- Savannah Outenb. 1992USAmerican singer
- Savannah Jaydeb. 1994USAmerican actress
- Savannah Stehlinb. 1996USAmerican actress and singer
- Savannah Steynb. 1996GBBritish actress (born 1996)
- Savannah McCaskillb. 1996USAmerican soccer player
- Savannah Phillipsb. 2010GBgranddaughter of Anne, Princess Royal; great-granddaughter of Elizabeth II
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 150K | #371 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.4K | #1,489 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 841 | #1,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 630 | #35,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 619 | #38,482 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 531 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 526 | #39,378 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 226 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 188 | #371 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 144 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2024 | 79 | #87 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 common is the name Savannah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 149,937 people named Savannah in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- What does the name Savannah mean?
- Recorded meaning: Savannah är som förnamn ett lån av de likalydande ortnamnen (på en flod och flera städer) i södra USA, kanske inspirerat av vanliga förnamn som Anna och Hannah.
- In which country does Savannah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 150 thousand people named Savannah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled savannah.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/savannahThe 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, “Savannah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.