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Sanjeev

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Sanjiv

Sanjeev has been given to 459 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 20 recorded.

Babies named Sanjeev, 2019

1 in 434,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sanjeev: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sanjiv

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sanjeev means

Sanjeev is a alternate transcription of Sanjiv.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sanjeev is used in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu and Kannada.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sanjeev → Sanjiv. The family’s meaning is “living, reviving”, recorded in the naming reference for Sanjiv.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sanjiv.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 459 boys were recorded with the name Sanjeev between 1966 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2004; its best national rank was #2,755 in 1979.

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 Sanjeev?

Sanjeev had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 434,000
8 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 224,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
300,847 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sanjeev 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 2019 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 300,847 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanjeev. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sanjeevs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanjeev was born before 1996 — so the typical Sanjeev is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
459
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2000s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Sanjeev 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 (20)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,755
1979

Spellings of Sanjeev

Sanjeev is not the most common spelling — Sandeep is, with 45.6% against Sanjeev's 25.9%.

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.

Sanjeev around the world

Where Sanjeev 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
    1996–2010
    #3,865
    in 2010
  • Scotland
    1978–1996
    #425
    in 1996
  • France
    2007–2021
    #5,618
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1993–2004
    #2,001
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1990–2005
    #643
    in 2005

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.

Sanjeev 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
#2,755
1979
Peak year
2004
20 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
459
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sanjeev

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

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Sibling names for Sanjeev

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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