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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sanjay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sanjay” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sanjay” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sanjay” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sanjay” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sanjay” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sanjay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sanjay” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1965 14 0.000003862 14 -100%
1966 18 0.000005179 18 -100%
1967 21 0.000006186 21 -100%
1968 24 0.000007104 24 -100%
1969 37 0.000010646 37 -100%
1970 33 0.00000915 33 -100%
1971 41 0.000011945 41 -100%
1972 27 0.000008591 27 -100%
1973 47 0.000015579 47 -100%
1974 58 0.000019079 58 -100%
1975 39 0.000012916 39 -100%
1976 38 0.000012523 38 -100%
1977 42 0.000013222 42 -100%
1978 35 0.000011028 35 -100%
1979 31 0.000009318 31 -100%
1980 35 0.000010161 35 -100%
1981 47 0.000013586 47 -100%
1982 47 0.000013398 47 -100%
1983 30 0.000008662 30 -100%
1984 28 0.000008026 28 -100%
1985 28 0.000007845 28 -100%
1986 30 0.000008434 30 -100%
1987 25 0.000006934 25 -100%
1988 25 0.000006766 25 -100%
1989 18 0.000004682 18 -100%
1990 35 0.000008855 35 -100%
1991 27 0.000006931 27 -100%
1992 33 0.000008591 33 -100%
1993 42 0.00001114 42 -100%
1994 40 0.000010759 40 -100%
1995 39 0.000010649 39 -100%
1996 42 0.000011516 42 -100%
1997 37 0.000010205 37 -100%
1998 42 0.000011419 42 -100%
1999 46 0.000012453 46 -100%
2000 58 0.000015344 58 -100%
2001 48 0.000012823 48 -100%
2002 48 0.00001284 48 -100%
2003 65 0.000017095 65 -100%
2004 69 0.000018058 69 -100%
2005 61 0.000015865 61 -100%
2006 90 0.000022749 90 -100%
2007 73 0.000018261 73 -100%
2008 87 0.000022134 87 -100%
2009 86 0.000022512 86 -100%
2010 87 0.000023541 87 -100%
2011 71 0.000019411 71 -100%
2012 60 0.000016405 60 -100%
2013 71 0.000019475 71 -100%
2014 58 0.000015649 58 -100%
2015 76 0.000020535 76 -100%
2016 44 0.000011993 44 -100%
2017 38 0.000010626 38 -100%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 -100%
2019 31 0.000008931 31 -100%
2020 24 0.000007184 24 -100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 24 0.000007094 24 -100%
2023 22 0.000006644 22 -100%
2024 23 0.00000691 23 -100%

Explore other names

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  5. Sanjana
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  8. Sanjeet
  9. Sanjeev
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