Sanam is from the Persian-Arabic ṣanam (صنم — beloved, idol, image of the beloved). Sanam Saeed (born 1985) is a Pakistani actress and model — widely considered one of the leading contemporary Pakistani actresses of the 2010s and 2020s. Married Pakistani actor Farhan Hassan (2017). Over 1.5 million Instagram followers.
Sanam 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sanam reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.