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Savada vs Savanah

American parents have registered 10,104 Savanahs since 1880, against 7 Savadas. Savanah is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Savada against Savanah, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Savada Savanah

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

Savanah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1884 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1927, when Savada had 7 and Savanah had 7.

Side by side

  Savada Savanah
Total US births 710,104
Most in one year 7512
Babies in 2025 under 521
Estimated living today 09,600
Median age today 9823
Peak year 19271998
Best rank 3,875th girls495th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,722nd
First recorded 19271884
Girls / boys 7 / 010,104 / 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 Savadas alive today are over 98; half the Savanahs are over 23. That is 75 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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