Saana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A fell in Finnish Lapland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/s̠ɑːnɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 214K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 235K
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
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
4,944 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A fell in Finnish Lapland.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saana 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 | #506 | 4,944 | 1 in 1.1K | 5K | Saana | 67 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Saana | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 6.9M | 5 | Saana | 56 |
| SE Sweden | — | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | Saana | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 27 | 1 in 7.8M | 28 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 599K | 14 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | 5 | Saana | 5 |
4,944 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); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Saana Murrayb. 1927NZNew Zealand weaver
- Saana Svärdb. 1977FIFinnish assyriologist
- Saana Hyvärinenb. 1977FIFinnish actress
- Saana Koljonenb. 1988FIFinnish volleyball player
- Saana Saarteinenb. 1993FIFinnish female tennis player
- Saana Valkamab. 1994FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Saana Suménb. 1995FIFinnish pesäpallo player
- Saana Kalliob. 1999FIFinnish association football player
- Saana Valkamab. 2003FIFinnish association football player
- Saana Latvalahtib. 2004FIFinnish association football 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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5K | #332 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 4.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 38 | #16,322 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 30 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 28 | #49,586 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #101,516 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 24 | — |
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
- What does the name Saana mean, and where does it come from?
- A fell in Finnish Lapland. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Saana?
- A machine transcription gives /s̠ɑːnɑ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Saana a male or female name?
- Saana 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.
- In which country does Saana have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Saana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saana.
- Where is Saana most common?
- Saana is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Saana?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,944 people named Saana, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Saana compared with other names?
- In Finland, Saana is the 506th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saanaThe 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, “Saana” — the 506th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.