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Sanket

Boys' name

Agreement, compact, stipulation, assignation with, engagement, appointment, through संकेत

Sanket has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 2001, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Sanket, 2003

1 in 760,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sanket: meaning, origin, and history

Agreement, compact, stipulation, assignation with, engagement, appointment, through संकेत

Sanskrit

What Sanket means

Sanket belongs to the name family reached through Sanket → संकेत. Its meaning is “agreement, compact, stipulation, assignation with, engagement, appointment”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sanket is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Sanket comes through Sanskrit संकेत.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include संकेत.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 44 boys were recorded with the name Sanket between 1982 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2001; its best national rank was #5,513 in 1982.

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.

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How common is Sanket?

Sanket had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 760,000
5 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only
1 in 395,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
526,991 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sanket 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 2003 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 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanket. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sankets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanket was born before 1995 — so the typical Sanket is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
44
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Sanket 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 2001 (8)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,513
1982

Spellings of Sanket

Sanket is not the most common spelling — Sander is, with 40.2% against Sanket's 1.1%.

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.

Sanket 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
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Best rank ever
#5,513
1982
Peak year
2001
8 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
44
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sanket

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

SanmaySanjiSandlerSantigoSanvikSanchoSanishSanteeSanathSanteSandipSantezSanaySanvithSantianoSantySantaSanilSanavSanjayaSanatSanuelSanjivSanjit

Sibling names for Sanket

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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