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Sanjana

#10,764 in 2025Girls' name

Uniting, joining

Sanjana has been given to 2,189 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #10,764 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 168 recorded.

Babies named Sanjana, 2025

1 in 368,000

Sanjana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sanjana: meaning, origin, and history

Uniting, joining

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sanjana means

Sanjana means “uniting, joining”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,189 girls were recorded with the name Sanjana between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 168 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,252 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,436 in 2020 to #10,764 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,247 in 2015 to #10,764 in 2025.

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 Sanjana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,764
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sanjana 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 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanjana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sanjanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanjana was born before 2006 — so the typical Sanjana is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
61.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,189
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 61.0% of all recorded uses (1,336).

Is Sanjana 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
+6,496
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,328
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,517
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.18×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.4%
Peak was 2003 (168)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,252
2003

Spellings of Sanjana

Sanjana is not the most common spelling — Sanaa is, with 19.2% against Sanjana's 6.8%.

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 Sanjana is used

Across 1910–2025, Sanjana was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 85,828 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Virginia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Sanjana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sanjana around the world

Where Sanjana 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
    1996–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2005–2005
    #687
    in 2005
  • France
    2001–2025
    #5,865
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2009
    #535
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Sanjana

People whose public names include Sanjana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sanjana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,764
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,328
Best rank ever
#1,252
2003
Peak year
2003
168 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,189
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Sanjana

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

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Names with a curve like Sanjana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sanjana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sanjana

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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