Savana
A girls’ name of Spanish origin, meaning treeless plain or grassland.
Savana by the numbers
In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Savana. In the US, 62 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 317 babies in 2000, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Savana. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Savannatreeless plain or grassland534 in the US (2017)
- Sahanapatient; forbearing; easy to bear136 in the US (2017)
- Savanahtreeless plain or grassland; alternate spelling of Savannah73 in the US (2017)
- Savinaof the Sabines; wise woman36 in the US (2017)
- Svanaswan6 in the US (2017)
- Savaya12 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Savana
Names that are said the same way as Savana, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Savana, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Kinsleyfrom the king's meadow; an English place name used as given name4,048 in the US (2017)
- Haileyhay meadow; form of Hayley3,691 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Everlywild boar meadow; form of Everley3,510 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Savana
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