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Savada vs Savanna

American parents have registered 32,989 Savannas since 1880, against 7 Savadas. Savanna is still ahead, with 222 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Savada against Savanna, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Savada Savanna

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 61 years in which either name was published, Savanna for 60 years and Savada for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Savada Savanna
Total US births 732,989
Most in one year 71,502
Babies in 2025 under 5222
Estimated living today 033,000
Median age today 9822
Peak year 19272006
Best rank 3,875th girls230th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,085th
First recorded 19271916
Girls / boys 7 / 032,974 / 15

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 Savannas are over 22. That is 76 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 Savanna.