boys:
2.6k births since 1962
#2500 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1962
#5286 (32nd percentile)
The name Sanjay is the #5,286 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,561 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 31.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,500 (45.5% percentile) for all time with 2,561 births since 1962.
Sanjay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (first recorded for boys in 1962).
For boys, Sanjay reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 9.7% percentile (ranked #790) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 42 births per million (ranked 9.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sanjay ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 27.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sanjay".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Sanjay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.6% confident that Sanjay is pronounced as SAN-jay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAHN-jay, at 26.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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