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Sandhya

Girls' name

Twilight

Sandhya has been given to 504 babies in the U.S. since 1966. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Sandhya, 2018

1 in 703,000

Sandhya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sandhya: meaning, origin, and history

Twilight

Sanskrit

What Sandhya means

Sandhya means “twilight”, associated with saṃdhyā.

Origin, language, and formation

Sandhya is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Sandhya comes through Sanskrit संध्या.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 504 girls were recorded with the name Sandhya between 1966 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,669 in 1969.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sandhya?

Sandhya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sandhya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sandhya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sandhyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sandhya was born before 1997 — so the typical Sandhya is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
504
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (148).

Is Sandhya rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (24)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
58.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,669
1969

Spellings of Sandhya

Sandhya is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 91.0% against Sandhya's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sandhya is used

Across 1910–2025, Sandhya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 381,257 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sandhya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sandhya around the world

Where Sandhya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009
  • France
    1984–1990
    #3,120
    in 1990
  • South Australia
    2005–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sandhya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,669
1969
Peak year
2004
24 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
504
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sandhya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sandhya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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