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How popular is the name Sanam?
Births per year, rank history and how many Sanams are alive today.
Sanam (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 3333rd in 2025 and given to 7 babies. The name peaked in 2008, when 14 babies were given the name, the 1815th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 1997, with 12 babies given the name that year.
The Sanam you are most likely to meet is around 30 years old. Half of all Sanams born in England and Wales are between 14 and 31, and there are at least 290 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Sanam - on average, only one in every 1,087 such rooms contains a Sanam.
How many babies are named Sanam each year?
Where does Sanam rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Sanam most popular?
Sanam peaked in 2008, when 14 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Sanam?
At least 290 people named Sanam born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Sanam?
Most living Sanams are between 14 and 31; the most common age is about 30.
Is Sanam becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.