Sanam is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Sanam in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sanam in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sanam by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sanam ranks at #8,810. That means there are 8,809 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sanam.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Sanam. Girls named Sanam have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,875 Sanam ranked higher than ever before in 1997. By comparison, there have been 100 years in which the first name Sanam has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2017. In general, parents name their daughters Sanam only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sanam was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Sanam continues to be a precious jewel: 16 newborns were named Sanam that year, ranking #6,090 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Sanam, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a woman or girl named Sanam is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Sanam can be found in only two: California and New York. No other state currently has residents named Sanam. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Sanam living in one state or another (if your name is Sanam and you live outside of California or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Sanam is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00078% of all female residents are named Sanam – that’s just one in 127,461! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 128 women with that name. So, if your name is Sanam, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Sanam is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sanam and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sanam, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Nut
Apple
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sanam
Sanam
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sanam sounds like this:
