Sanjiv

boys:

124 births since 1965

#4462 (3rd percentile)

overall:

124 births since 1965

#7615 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Sanjiv is the #7,615 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 124 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,462 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 124 births since 1965.

Sanjiv first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (first recorded for boys in 1965). Birth data for Sanjiv is available in 19 out of the 43 years between 1965 and 2007. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For boys, Sanjiv reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #662) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sanjiv".

1965 2007 19652007

Key Statistics

Total Births
124
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1971
First Recorded
1965
Peak Percentile
0.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#662
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sanjiv

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Sanjiv. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 61.1% confident that Sanjiv is pronounced as suhn-JEEV, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAN-jihv, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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61.1%
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22.2%
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16.7%
suhn-JEEV (2 syllables)
61.1% confidence
S AH0 N JH IY1 V
SAN-jihv (2 syllables)
22.2% confidence
S AE1 N JH IH0 V
sahn-JEEV (2 syllables)
Verified
16.7% confidence
S AA0 N JH IY1 V

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S AH0 N JH IY1 V) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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