The name Savannah, or Savanna, is derived from the Native American (Taino) word zabana and Spanish word sabana, referring to an "open plain" or "treeless grassland." It's also a place name for the fifth-most populous city in Georgia. The name was popular in the early 1900s, but fell out of the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 in 1932. Savannah made a return to the list in 1983, was a top-200 girl's name by 1986 and has now been a top-100 girl's name every year since 1993. It's the name "Desperate Housewives" star Marcia Cross gave her daughter Savannah, born in 2007.
