MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sanjay mean?
Sañjaya is also the Mahabharata narrator who describes the battle to Dhritarashtra, giving the name a distinct epic association. The conquest root ji also underlies Vijay and Ajit. Dhritarashtra is the blind king to whom Sanjaya reports the events at Kurukshetra.
Pronunciation
IAST: sañjaya
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
संजय
Letter-by-letter: sañjaya
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Sanjaya
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sanjay in Indian usage
1,400,279 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 16,127 records (1.2%).
- Recorded as male: 1,384,152 records (98.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1910s | 127 |
| 1920s | 1,332 |
| 1930s | 501 |
| 1940s | 1,555 |
| 1950s | 7,494 |
| 1960s | 107,279 |
| 1970s | 445,832 |
| 1980s | 543,097 |
| 1990s | 292,962 |
| 2000s | 100 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 466,684 |
| Bihar | 393,343 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 139,658 |
| Jharkhand | 106,070 |
| Haryana | 79,634 |
| Rajasthan | 75,408 |
| Delhi | 63,483 |
| Uttarakhand | 30,551 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 16,639 |
| Odisha | 10,764 |
| Maharashtra | 4,007 |
| Goa | 3,227 |
| Chandigarh | 2,553 |
| Kerala | 2,417 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,566 |
| Meghalaya | 894 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 727 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 696 |
| Sikkim | 458 |
| Nagaland | 348 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 332 |
| Manipur | 256 |
| Daman and Diu | 217 |
| Karnataka | 131 |
| Other states | 216 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
Explore related lists
Sources
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Sanjay ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Wiktionary: संजय ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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