Sanjay

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sanjay is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘triumphant’; name of the main narrator of the daily battles in the Mahabharata.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 251◐
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 1.1K
  • BDBangladesh1 in 2.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈9.9K ●

across 8 countries

#161 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
347 ●

3.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.2K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

SanjayLatin · Hindi●8.9M records
ସଂଜୟOdia · Odia●88 records
ซันเจThai · Thai●48 records
সঞ্জযBengali · Bangla●25 records
සංජයSinhala · Sinhala●5 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sanjoy in BD Bangladesh, FI Finland and Sanjaya in LK Sri Lanka.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Sanskrit: ‘triumphant’; name of the main narrator of the daily battles in the Mahabharata.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sanjay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#612,986,2483.3M rec.—1.2KSanjay308
BD Bangladesh#275114,8132.3K rec.——Sanjoy59
GB United Kingdom#83617,46210K rec.—4Sanjay150
US United States—8,690110K rec.1 in 38K8.7KSanjay347
AU Australia—7,6547.6K rec.—1Sanjay148
CA Canada—4,6864.2K rec.—1Sanjay127
MY Malaysia—4,6442.7K rec.——Sanjay59
FR France—2,1181.1K rec.——Sanjay139
ZA South Africa—1,6181.5K rec.——Sanjay46
LK Sri Lanka#691,3494.3K rec.——Sanjaya61
SG Singapore#4951,0651.6K rec.——Sanjay81
ID Indonesia—1,051943 rec.—listedSanjay67

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi8.9M63%
  • English3.4M24%
  • 1.2M9%
  • Vietnamese105K1%
  • Bangla96K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi8,866,90263%
English3,392,38424%
1,241,3959%
Vietnamese104,7781%
Bangla95,9081%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sanjay is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.3M records spelled Sanjay3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Sañjay

  • Arabic given name33K records spelled Sanjay4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

    Also written סנג'אי

  • Russian given name8.5K records spelled Sanjay18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Санджай, Sandzhai, Санджаи, Šåñjąÿ

  • German given name6.9K records spelled Sanjay3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Germany, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Säñjåy, Saeñjåy

  • Hungarian given name5.1K records spelled Sanjay6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Såñjåy, Sâñjãy, Sáñjây

  • a separate given name567 records spelled Sanjay9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Also written Sàñjáy, Säñjäy, Sâñjäy, Šănjăy, S༙a͒n͒j͒a͒y͒

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Sanjay is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Sanskrit; triumphant

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020K40K60K80K19001950200062K · 1982

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Sanjay in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1894–2017
Yearrecords
18941
18972
189948
19008
19012
19041
19111
19125
19133
19143
19153
191610
191712
191839
191949
1920300
192167
192279
1923402
1924117
192586
192633
192726
192822
192942
193014
193135
193235
193340
193441
193544
193632
193761
193853
193972
194080
194180
1942128
1943100
1944131
1945115
1946182
1947217
1948167
1949185
1950248
1951239
1952395
1953283
1954473
1955546
1956684
19571,013
19581,159
19591,747
19602,170
19612,969
19624,847
19635,309
19648,221
19659,684
196612,064
196715,694
196817,217
196920,784
197026,295
197127,073
197235,038
197336,203
197443,961
197545,059
197652,648
197745,966
197847,423
197949,227
198037,554
198153,055
198262,158
198361,678
198461,193
198556,028
198640,721
198749,071
198842,107
198940,994
199039,946
199141,148
199241,807
199342,575
199435,852
199531,450
199616,766
199716,493
199810,286
1999801
200061
200139
200220
20033
200735
20088,019
200911
20104,113
201165
2012244
2013646
201410,178
20152,160
201615
201725

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 110 years between 1894–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

194019601980Sanjay Khan, b. 1941Sanjay Gandhi, b. 1946Sanjay Dutt, b. 1959Sanjay Subrahmanyam, b. 1961Sanjay Leela Bhansali, b. 1963Sanjay Mishra, b. 1963Sanjay Kapoor, b. 1965Sanjay Gupta, b. 1969Sanjay Suri, b. 1971Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan, b. 1975

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 56 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Sanjay
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—12K#470
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.7K#2,687
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.2K#4,910
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—462#402
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—397#1,892
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020255#80,289
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025231#368
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—221#5,143
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—208#4,670
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026188#1,346
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—187#5,480
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—170#1,354

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 412 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sanjay?
We estimate roughly 9.9 thousand people bear Sanjay (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Sanjay have the most bearers?
Sanjay is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sanjay.
How common is Sanjay compared with other names?
In India, Sanjay is the 6th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Sanjay a male or female name?
Sanjay is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Sanjay mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘triumphant’; name of the main narrator of the daily battles in the Mahabharata.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sanjay” — the 6th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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