Sahana
Feminine · “patience”
Sahana is patience in Sanskrit — the capacity to bear — and it is also a raga, one of the classical melodic frameworks of Carnatic music.
How old is the name Sahana?
Sahana first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Sahana is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,900 people named Sahana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sahana most popular?
Sahana peaked in 2011, reaching #1418 nationally. Today it ranks #1911, 493 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From sah to Sahana
The story of Sahana
Sahana is one of the ragas of Carnatic music, described as evoking tenderness and entreaty, and is used in devotional composition. The word itself means the capacity to endure. It is a current name across southern India, and Indian emigration brought it to America, where it is in current use.
Meaning
patience, endurance
From the Sanskrit sahana, 'endurance' or 'forbearance', from the root sah, 'to bear' or 'to withstand'. It also names a raga in the Carnatic tradition, associated with a tender and pleading mood. The Sanskrit is documented and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- sah
- sahana
- Sahana
Related forms: सहाना · Sahana · Sahana
Pronouncing Sahana
sah-HAH-nah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Sanskrit gives every vowel a full value.
Nicknames for Sahana
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 2011160 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1418reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −11.4%101 in 2025, from 114
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sahana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- सहाना in Hindi — transliteration
- Sahana in Tamil — same name
- Sahana in Kannada — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Sahanas among us
people named Sahana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,914 born in 2025 was named Sahana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Annita test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sahana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Annita climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Annita's path sketches the road Sahana is walking now.
Sahana sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Sahana is headed
Sahana should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Sahana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sahana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The patience meaning is transparent, undisputed and unusually substantial.
- That it also names a raga gives it a genuinely specific musical association.
- Hana is available as a short form that is a real name in two languages.
- Three syllables and an unfamiliar spelling will need dictating.
- Sahara and Sahana are close enough to be misheard.
- It reads as specifically Indian.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sahanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Sahana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sahana in 2025?
- Sahana ranks #1911 among US girl names in 2025, with 101 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sahana?
- About 1 in every 15,914 US girls born in 2025 was named Sahana — 101 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sahana with classmates?
- Sahana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Sahana
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