Sansa is from the Sanskrit *saṃsā* — "praise, charm" — and was chosen by author George R. R. Martin for one of the protagonists of his *A Song of Ice and Fire* series (1996-present). **Sansa Stark** — eldest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark in *A Song of Ice and Fire* / HBO's *Game of Thrones* (2011-2019); over the eight TV seasons her character arc moves from naive teenager promised to Prince Joffrey to **Queen in the North**, ruling the independent Northern Kingdom — one of the most-watched and most-analyzed character arcs in 21st-century television. **Played by Sophie Turner** in *Game of Thrones*, the role she began at age 14 in 2011 and held through 2019. **Sansa won the Emmy for Outstanding Female Performance in a Drama Series for Turner in 2019**. **A top-1000 US baby name since 2013**. **In Sanskrit literature, *Saṃsā* is also a feminine name in the *Mahābhārata*; in Catalan, *sansa* refers to dried olive pomace**.
Featured throughout 2010s pop culture and the *A Song of Ice and Fire* fandom.
Sansa reduces to three — the number of Queen in the North.