Sanjaya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanjaya 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.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 885(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.3Kas Sanjoy
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 14Kas Sanjay
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 Sanjaya 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 885 (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 named Sanjay, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sanjay in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 2 more and Sanjoy in BD Bangladesh.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanjaya 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 | — | 8,737as Sanjay | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Sanjay | 388 |
| GY Guyana | — | 231as Sanjay | 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sanjaya Belatthaputtab. 3506th-century BCE Indian ascetic teacher
- Sanjaya Lallb. 1940INIndian economist (1940-2005)
- Sanjaya Rajaramb. 1943MXIndian-born Mexican scientist
- Sanjaya Barub. 1954INIndian political commentator and former media advisor of the Prime Minister of India
- Amarasingha Arachchige Sanjaya Pradeep Kumarab. 1982LKassociation football player
- Sanjaya Ranaweerab. 1986LKSri Lankan cricketer (1986-)
- Sanjaya Malakarb. 1989USAmerican reality television personality
- Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljob. 1996IDIndonesian badminton player
- SanjayaKing of Mataram
- Sanjaya D SenanayakeNZNew Zealand chemist
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 288 | #28,137 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 37 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 36 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 36 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1983 | 34 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #28,137 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1977 | 33 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 32 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 30 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1982 | 30 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1975 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 28 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Sanjaya a male or female name?
- Sanjaya 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 Sanjaya?
- In the etymology graph, Sanjay is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sanjaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Sanjay in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sanjaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,737 people named Sanjay in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Sanjaya compared with other names?
- In India, Sanjaya 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/sanjayaThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Sanjaya” — the 4th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.