Sanjay
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanjay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘triumphant’; name of the main narrator of the daily battles in the Mahabharata.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 38K
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 885as Sanjaya
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sanjay itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #210 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 388 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 388 (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sanjoy in BD Bangladesh and Sanjaya in LK Sri Lanka.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Sanjay counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 388 | 1 | Sanjay | 80 |
| BD Bangladesh | #222 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Sanjoy | 61 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #72 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 885 | — | Sanjaya | 64 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Sanjay | 68 |
| AO Angola | #178 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Sanjay | 5 |
| US United States | — | 8,737 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Sanjay | 388 |
| GY Guyana | — | 231 | 1 in 3.2K | 231 | — | 3 |
| IN India | #4 | — | — | 1.2K | Sanjay | 333 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the id-github-names register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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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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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sanjay Khanb. 1941INIndian actor
- Sanjay Gandhib. 1946INIndian politician (1946-1980)
- Sanjay Duttb. 1959INIndian actor and politician
- Sanjay Subrahmanyamb. 1961INIndian historian
- Sanjay Leela Bhansalib. 1963INIndian film director, producer and screenwriter
- Sanjay Mishrab. 1963INIndian actor
- Sanjay Kapoorb. 1965INIndian actor (born 1965)
- Sanjay Guptab. 1969USAmerican neurosurgeon, medical reporter and writer
- Sanjay Surib. 1971INIndian actor
- Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhanb. 1975INIndian film director
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(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 12K | #470 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.7K | #2,687 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 231 | #368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 47 | #2,687 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 28 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #289 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
| US United States | Baby Names 25,350 (Voight, 2004) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sanjay mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘triumphant’; name of the main narrator of the daily battles in the Mahabharata. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- 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 are other forms of the name Sanjay?
- In the etymology graph, Sanjaya is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sanjay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Sanjay in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanjay.
- How common is the name Sanjay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,737 people named Sanjay in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Sanjay compared with other names?
- In India, Sanjay is the 4th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanjayThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 4th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.