Spellings
Savannah or Savanna?
In the US in 2025, 89% of babies in this name family were spelled Savannah and 9% Savanna. Same name, slightly different impression: here are the figures for each spelling.
Ten years ago
Savannah already led in 2015, with 87% of the family's births; it has 89% in 2025. All spellings together, the family went from 6,304 to 2,405 births (−62%).
| Spelling | 2015 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Savannah | 5,469 | 2,141 | −61% |
| Savanna | 632 | 222 | −65% |
| Savanah | 126 | 21 | −83% |
| Savana | 77 | 21 | −73% |
How they sound
All of these spellings are said the same way: /səˈvænə/ (suh-VAN-uh). So the choice is about how it looks: it is the spelling people will read on a birth card, a name tag or an email address, and the one your child will sometimes spell out.
In France
In France in 2025: Savannah 30 births, Savanna 5 births and Savanah 10 births. The other spellings are not given there often enough to be counted.
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), Insee (France), 2025 data. How we calculate these figures.
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