Entry № 9155 · Arabic origin

Sana Sana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Brilliance + iconic Sana of TWICE (K-pop)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "brilliance + iconic sana of twice (k-pop)".

Sana is from the Arabic sanāʾ (سناء — brilliance, radiance, splendor) and parallel Japanese sana (砂奈 — sand+name). Princess Sana — Arabic-Japanese-Korean heritage naming.

Brilliance + iconic Sana of TWICE (K-pop) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

سناء
Transliteration
Sanāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sana stands.

Sana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sanas before her.

Real people
Sana Minatozaki (TWICE)
Iconic K-pop TWICE member + Japanese-Korean bridge.
born 1996
In fiction
Sana
Arabic for brilliance.

Names connected to Sana.

The number behind Sana.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sana reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.