Entry № 9296 · Spanish origin

Savannah Savannah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-VAN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Treeless plain"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "treeless plain".

Savannah comes from the Spanish sabana, itself from the Taíno (Indigenous Caribbean) word zabana, meaning "treeless plain" — the open grasslands of the New World tropics.

Savannah entered the U.S. Today it sits in the U.S. top 100.

Treeless plain. A Taíno landscape, named.

The name in its native script.

Savannah
Transliteration
Savannah
Pronunciation
/ səˈvæn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Savannah stands.

Savannah 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.

Savannahs before her.

Real people
Savannah Chrisley
American TV personality.
born 1997
Savannah Guthrie
American journalist, Today show.
born 1971
In fiction

Names connected to Savannah.

The number behind Savannah.

8

The Visionary

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