Svana
Svana is a name with a single cultural origin: Icelandic.
- Icelandic
Meaning & Origin of Svana
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Svana is a name with a single cultural origin: Icelandic.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Icelandic
The Story of Svana
Svana first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 2012, with 9 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2012: 9 births, good for #11,255 nationwide. About 89% of every Svana on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Svana last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 44 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2010s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Svana
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Svana. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Svanhildur
Names that sound like Svana
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About the name Svana
Svana is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2012 and has accumulated 44 births in the dataset. Svana's peak popularity came in 2012 when it ranked #11,255. Use the chart and map above to compare Svana's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.