Entry № 844 · Finnish origin

Sanna Sanna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Finnish
Meaning
"Lily (Sanna Marin, youngest sitting PM in the world)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Finnish)

A name that means "lily (sanna marin, youngest sitting pm in the world)".

Sanna is the Finnish-Swedish diminutive of Susanna — from the Hebrew Shoshannah (lily). Led a five-party coalition government — all five party leaders were women, four of them under 35 — through the COVID-19 pandemic and Finland's historic 2023 NATO accession.

Lily (Sanna Marin, youngest sitting PM in the world) — a Finnish name.

The name in its native script.

Sanna
Transliteration
Sanna
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑː.nə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Sanna stands.

Sanna 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.

Sannas before her.

Real people
Sanna Marin
39th Prime Minister of Finland.
born 1985
In fiction

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Names connected to Sanna.

The number behind Sanna.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sanna reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.