Sanjay
Sanjay is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200690 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1962
- 2,586people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,586 boys have been named Sanjay in the United States since 1962, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 90 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 26%.
By decade
In 2006, its biggest year
Sanjay was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Sanjay
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaysonpeak 2004
- Karlospeak 2005
- Davinpeak 2007
- Tyepeak 2006
- Evangelospeak 2010
- Jaisonpeak 2008
- Taitpeak 2007
- Broderickpeak 2009
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.