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Sangita

Girls' name

Chorus, music

Sangita has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1969, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Sangita, 2001

1 in 748,000

Sangita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sangita: meaning, origin, and history

Chorus, music

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sangita means

Sangita means “chorus, music”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sangita is used in Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Bengali, Assamese and Odia.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɔŋ.ɡi.t̪a/ and /sɔ̃.ˈɡi.t̪ɔ/ for Sangita.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 85 girls were recorded with the name Sangita between 1967 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1969; its best national rank was #4,980 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.

How common is Sangita?

Sangita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 360,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sangita 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sangita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sangitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sangita was born before 1974 — so the typical Sangita is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
56.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
85
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 56.5% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Sangita 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 1969 (10)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,980
1969

Spellings of Sangita

Sangita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 82.3% against Sangita's 0.03%.

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.

Sangita around the world

Where Sangita 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.

  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sangita 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,980
1969
Peak year
1969
10 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sangita

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

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Sibling names for Sangita

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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