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Sanjaya

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sanjaya has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2007, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% boys, 27% girls all-time.

Babies named Sanjaya, 2008

1 in 491,000

Sanjaya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Sanjaya over time

In 2008, Sanjaya went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20072008

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Sanjaya: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sanjaya means

Sanjaya is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sanjaya is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Sanjaya between 2007 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,772 in 2007.

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Sanjaya between 2007 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2007; its best national rank was #9,440 in 2007.

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 Sanjaya?

Sanjaya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 491,000
8 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
340,573 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sanjaya 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 2008 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 340,573 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanjaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sanjayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanjaya was born before 2007 — so the typical Sanjaya is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
36
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2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Sanjaya 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (28)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,772
2007

Spellings of Sanjaya

Sanjaya is not the most common spelling — Santana is, with 74.7% against Sanjaya's 0.35%.

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.

Sanjaya around the world

Where Sanjaya 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
    1977–1977
    #455
    in 1977

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

Sanjaya by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,772
2007
Peak year
2007
28 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,440
2007
Peak year
2007
13 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sanjaya

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

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Sibling names for Sanjaya

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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