Sanjay
#4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 58 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,606since 1962
Sanjay over time
Rank among boys' names. Sanjay 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,857 | 20 |
| 2024 | #4,433 | 23 |
| 2023 | #4,610 | 22 |
| 2022 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #4,141 | 24 |
| 2019 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #3,071 | 38 |
| 2016 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #1,910 | 76 |
| 2014 | #2,277 | 58 |
| 2013 | #1,942 | 71 |
| 2012 | #2,185 | 60 |
| 2011 | #1,947 | 71 |
| 2010 | #1,739 | 87 |
| 2009 | #1,762 | 86 |
| 2008 | #1,736 | 87 |
| 2007 | #1,928 | 73 |
| 2006 | #1,605 | 90 |
| 2005 | #2,035 | 61 |
| 2004 | #1,804 | 69 |
| 2003 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #2,195 | 48 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #1,830 | 58 |
| 1999 | #2,063 | 46 |
| 1998 | #2,157 | 42 |
| 1997 | #2,260 | 37 |
| 1996 | #2,047 | 42 |
| 1995 | #2,102 | 39 |
| 1994 | #2,041 | 40 |
| 1993 | #1,933 | 42 |
| 1992 | #2,253 | 33 |
| 1991 | #2,544 | 27 |
| 1990 | #2,086 | 35 |
| 1989 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #1,962 | 30 |
| 1985 | #2,019 | 28 |
| 1984 | #1,933 | 28 |
| 1983 | #1,822 | 30 |
| 1982 | #1,382 | 47 |
| 1981 | #1,373 | 47 |
| 1980 | #1,655 | 35 |
| 1979 | #1,788 | 31 |
| 1978 | #1,596 | 35 |
| 1977 | #1,407 | 42 |
| 1976 | #1,453 | 38 |
| 1975 | #1,407 | 39 |
| 1974 | #1,082 | 58 |
| 1973 | #1,201 | 47 |
| 1972 | #1,680 | 27 |
| 1971 | #1,309 | 41 |
| 1970 | #1,462 | 33 |
| 1969 | #1,302 | 37 |
| 1968 | #1,614 | 24 |
| 1967 | #1,711 | 21 |
| 1966 | #1,814 | 18 |
| 1965 | #2,178 | 14 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sanjay! It came in at #3,041, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1964, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
Where Sanjay is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#862 · 1 in 15,878
- California#1,017 · 1 in 21,116
Best ever in a state: #403 in Indiana, 1969.
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| Illinois | #862 | 5 | 1 in 15,878 |
| California | #1,017 | 8 | 1 in 21,116 |
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See more about Sanjay
- 424 spots since 2024 (#4,433 → #4,857)
- 716 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #4,857)
- 2,947 spots since 2015 (#1,910 → #4,857)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1974 at #1,082 (58 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,054 boys born in 2010 were named Sanjay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,082 in 1974, was only 1 in 27,109 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.3% of all boys named Sanjay (685) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 137 | #1,302 (1969) | #2,248 |
| 1970s | 391 | #1,082 (1974) | #1,439 |
| 1980s | 313 | #1,373 (1981) | #1,999 |
| 1990s | 383 | #1,933 (1993) | #2,149 |
| 2000s | 685 | #1,605 (2006) | #1,886 |
| 2010s | 568 | #1,739 (2010) | #2,481 |
| 2020s | 129 | #4,141 (2020) | #4,651 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sanjay in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 46,910 of them was named Sanjay, which outranked 76.4% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,570Sameer36
- #1,570Shain36
- #1,570Vincente36
- #1,596Sanjay35
- #1,596Abner35
- #1,596Ajay35
- #1,596Antwane35
- #1,616Alexandre34
- #1,616Anand34
- #1,616Antwone34
Tied with 19 names at #1,596; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.