Sanah
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSA, 2023
/sanah/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Sanah is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 100Kfew records
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 140K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sanah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Sanah | 16 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Sanah | 53 |
| IN India | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 886K | 17 | Sanah | 47 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 218K | listed | Sanah | 14 |
| US United States | 460 | 1 in 723K | 444 | Sanah | 141 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Sanah | 14 |
| BE Belgium | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Sanah | 9 |
| QA Qatar | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Sanah | 8 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sanah Mollob. 1987ZASouth Africa footballer
- Sanah Kadourab. 1989CACanadian jazz drummer
- Sanah Moiduttyb. 1991INIndian singer songwriter (born 1991)
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 444 | #21,875 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 17 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #21,875 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 15 | — |
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 do you pronounce Sanah?
- In Indonesian /sanah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sanah a male or female name?
- Sanah is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sanah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Sanah in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanah.
- How common is the name Sanah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 460 people named Sanah in 2020, about 1 in 723 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sanah?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanahThe 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, “Sanah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.