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Sanjay

#5,011 in 2025Boys' name

Wholly + victory, through संजय

Sanjay has been given to 2,606 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #5,011 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Sanjay, 2025

1 in 166,000

Sanjay over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sanjay: meaning, origin, and history

Wholly + victory, through संजय

Sanskrit

What Sanjay means

Sanjay belongs to the name family reached through Sanjay → संजय. Its meaning is “wholly + victory”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sanjay is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Sanjay comes through Sanskrit संजय.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include संजय.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,606 boys were recorded with the name Sanjay between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 90 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,090 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,253 in 2020 to #5,011 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,928 in 2015 to #5,011 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sanjay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,011
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sanjay sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanjay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sanjays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanjay was born before 2001 — so the typical Sanjay is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,606
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (685).

Is Sanjay 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
−472
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−758
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,083
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.26×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.2%
Peak was 2006 (90)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,090
1974

Spellings of Sanjay

Sanjay is not the most common spelling — Sandy is, with 51.0% against Sanjay's 12.7%.

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 Sanjay is used

Across 1910–2025, Sanjay was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 97,281 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Sanjay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sanjay around the world

Where Sanjay 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
    1996–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1999–1999
    #359
    in 1999
  • France
    1976–2025
    #2,402
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1969–2009
    #708
    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 Sanjay

People whose public names include Sanjay, 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.

Sanjay in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sanjay. Linked forms have their own page here.

Sanjaya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sanjay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,011
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 758
Best rank ever
#1,090
1974
Peak year
2006
90 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,606
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Sanjay

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

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Names with a curve like Sanjay

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

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Sibling names for Sanjay

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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