Savannah
Savannah reached its high-water mark in 2000 at number 37, and has been recorded 191,736 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 135th. About 187,000 Savannahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Savannah boys named Savannah
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 191,736
- Estimated living today
- 187,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 37th
- Rank in 2025
- 135th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 191,514 / 222
How old the living Savannahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 191,736 babies given the name since 1880, about 187,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 81,000 of them are children and 620 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a place name
The cities are named after the Savannah River, possibly derived.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Savannahs
- Savannah Guthrie (born 1971)American journalist and attorney
- Savannah Outen (born 1992)American singer
- Savannah Sutherland (born 2003)Canadian sprinter and hurdler
People named Savannah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Savannah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Savannah is most concentrated in Nevada (2.4×), Alaska (2.1×), Utah (1.9×), Florida (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular girls’ names the year Savannah peaked:
Savannah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Savannah | 9,057 | 108th |
| France girls | Savannah | 2,410 | 338th |
| Scotland girls | Savannah | 588 | 116th |
| Ireland girls | Savannah | 507 | 165th |
| New Zealand girls | Savannah | 443 | 65th |
| Belgium girls | Savannah | 396 | 300th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Savannah | 270 | 98th |
| Norway girls | Savannah | 244 | 221st |
| Poland girls | Savannah | 19 birth registrations | 483rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Savannah: rank by region
In 2020, Savannah was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Savannah | 254 | 11 |
In 2023, Savannah was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Savannah | 318 | 2 |
In 2019, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Savannah appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (214th) and Province of Antwerp (278th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Savannah by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 552nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Savannah among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Savannah | 62 | 127 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Savannah against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.