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Saadiq vs Saanvi

American parents have registered 4,945 Saanvis since 1880, against 461 Saadiqs. Saanvi is still ahead, with 274 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Saadiq against Saanvi, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Saadiq Saanvi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 31 years in which either name was published, Saanvi for 23 years and Saadiq for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Saadiq Saanvi
Total US births 4614,945
Most in one year 25312
Babies in 2025 8274
Estimated living today 4604,900
Median age today 179
Peak year 20022011
Best rank 3,450th boys846th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910th943rd
First recorded 19952002
Girls / boys 0 / 4614,945 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Saadiqs alive today are over 17; half the Saanvis are over 9. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Saadiq Saanvi
England and Wales 9739

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Saadiq and Saanvi.