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Sandhya

Girl · Sanskrit

Sandhya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “twilight”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Sandhya mean?

Sanskrit

“twilight”

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Sandhya a girl's or a boy's name?

Sandhya is a girls' name.

How popular is Sandhya in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1966.

Half of all the girls named Sandhya in the US since 1880 were born between 1984 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.

1966Busiest: 24 in 20042018
Sandhya in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20185#15,677
20179#10,685
20160–
20157#13,001
20140–
201312#9,031
20129#11,251
201113#8,610
201010#10,446
20099#11,454
200814#8,525
20078#12,671
200623#5,708
20058#11,828
200424#5,204
200311#9,043
200221#5,440
200113#7,717
200017#6,202
199910#8,798
199819#5,359
199717#5,622
19969#8,807
19957#10,509
19945#13,423
199310#8,045
199212#7,060
199112#6,969
199016#5,544
19897#9,675
19887#9,239
198711#6,330
198613#5,456
19857#8,315
19845#10,417
19830–
19829#6,886
19818#7,407
19809#6,788
197910#6,188
197813#4,931
19778#6,890
197611#5,213
197511#5,159
197410#5,359
19730–
19726#7,290
19718#6,004
19700–
196911#4,417
19685#7,014
19670–
19665#6,563

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