Entry № 9197 · 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
Grammatical form

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

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.