Given name
Sapna
“a dream come true”
Sapna is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “a dream come true.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “a dream come true.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sapna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 556
- 0 boys · 556 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,853 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,853 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,763 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sapna’s family of names
Sapna has a related form in Sapnah. Sapna has a related form in Sapnea. Sapna has a related form in Sapneah.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Sapna
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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