Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Savanna
/sah · VAN · ah/
Meaning
“Grassland”
English nature name from the Spanish sabana, the vast open grassland biome; the single-h spelling became an American naming trend in the 1990s as parents turned to geography and nature for names.
Nicknames
van · vanna
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Peaked in the US around 2000; the -h spelling ages slightly better, this one reads as 1990s.
The cultural moment.
Top 100 in the US during the 1990s and 2000s; declining since 2010 as newer nature names took over.