Sanjana
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 168 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,189since 1990
Sanjana over time
Rank among girls' names. Sanjana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #4,304 | 33 |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 |
| 2015 | #3,211 | 51 |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 |
| 2013 | #2,408 | 75 |
| 2012 | #2,474 | 74 |
| 2011 | #2,258 | 83 |
| 2010 | #1,873 | 108 |
| 2009 | #1,769 | 123 |
| 2008 | #1,927 | 109 |
| 2007 | #1,804 | 118 |
| 2006 | #1,444 | 155 |
| 2005 | #1,553 | 131 |
| 2004 | #1,387 | 150 |
| 2003 | #1,249 | 168 |
| 2002 | #1,351 | 143 |
| 2001 | #1,468 | 128 |
| 2000 | #1,588 | 111 |
| 1999 | #2,115 | 72 |
| 1998 | #2,973 | 43 |
| 1997 | #4,125 | 26 |
| 1996 | #3,429 | 33 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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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 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#399 · 1 in 2,221
- Virginia#649 · 1 in 4,004
- Illinois#661 · 1 in 4,076
- California#895 · 1 in 6,126
- Michigan#1,071 · 1 in 8,182
Best ever in a state: #359 in New Jersey, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #399 | 19 | 1 in 2,221 |
| Virginia | #649 | 9 | 1 in 4,004 |
| Illinois | #661 | 17 | 1 in 4,076 |
| California | #895 | 37 | 1 in 6,126 |
| Michigan | #1,071 | 6 | 1 in 8,182 |
| Texas | #1,203 | 18 | 1 in 8,782 |
| New York | #1,204 | 11 | 1 in 8,919 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,270 | 5 | 1 in 11,303 |
| Florida | #1,806 | 5 | 1 in 15,964 |
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See more about Sanjana
- 5,186 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #10,107)
- 1,154 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #10,107)
- 6,896 spots since 2015 (#3,211 → #10,107)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2003 at #1,249 (168 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 61.0% of all girls named Sanjana (1,336) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 246 | #2,115 (1999) | #6,468 |
| 2000s | 1,336 | #1,249 (2003) | #1,554 |
| 2010s | 536 | #1,873 (2010) | #3,976 |
| 2020s | 71 | #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.
Sanjana in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 10,876 of them was named Sanjana, which outranked 93.2% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,242Iman169
- #1,242Lexis169
- #1,242Scarlet169
- #1,249Sanjana168
- #1,249Abbygail168
- #1,249Aislinn168
- #1,249Alysha168
- #1,254Adelaide167
- #1,254Isha167
- #1,254Milagros167
Tied with 4 names at #1,249; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.