Sanjana

Peak · girls
2003 · 168 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,189
since 1990

Sanjana over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Sanjana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank1990200020102020peak #1,249, 2003girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,1079
2024#15,2935
2023#8,98911
2022#7,28115
2021#5,95520
2020#8,95311
2019#6,41418
2018#9,15111
2017#4,30433
2016#4,53131
2015#3,21151
2014#3,13752
2013#2,40875
2012#2,47474
2011#2,25883
2010#1,873108
2009#1,769123
2008#1,927109
2007#1,804118
2006#1,444155
2005#1,553131
2004#1,387150
2003#1,249168
2002#1,351143
2001#1,468128
2000#1,588111
1999#2,11572
1998#2,97343
1997#4,12526
1996#3,42933
1995#4,09925
1994#6,67213
1993#5,67316
1992#9,4918
1991#13,1475
1990#12,9585
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First appearance
1990

The first year at least five girls were named Sanjana! It came in at #12,958, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Sanjana is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Sanjana in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Sanjana
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 5,186 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #10,107)
  • 1,154 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1990
  • Peaked 2003 at #1,249 (168 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,876
  • Highest: 1 in 10,876 girls born in 2003 were named Sanjana (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 61.0% of all girls named Sanjana (1,336) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s246#2,115 (1999)#6,468
2000s1,336#1,249 (2003)#1,554
2010s536#1,873 (2010)#3,976
2020s71#5,955 (2021)#9,430

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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