Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Sanjaya isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sanjaya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 49
- 36 boys · 13 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 41 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 28 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 321 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sanjaya’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sanjaya
- Sanjaya MalakarAmerican reality television personalityborn 1989
- Sanjaya of MataramKing of Mataram
- Sanjaya Belatthiputta6th-century BCE Indian ascetic teacher350 BC
- Sanjaya RajaramIndian-born Mexican scientist1943–2021
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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