Sanchez
Sanchez was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,492 among boys’ names; 1,000 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sanchez by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sanchez?
#10,492 among boys’ names, 2025
Sanchez fell from #7,931 in 2015 to #10,492 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.1 per million.
41 babies in 1989, the peak
Sanchez peaked in 1989, when 41 babies were given it (35 boys, #2,055 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,492 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,104 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,997 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,988 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,587 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,603 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,705 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,273 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,602 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 10 | #8,056 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,931 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,220 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,605 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,673 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,794 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,981 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,028 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #6,002 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,391 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,975 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,818 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,753 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,488 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,153 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,259 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,275 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,807 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,462 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,016 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,794 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,230 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,922 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,224 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,088 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,281 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 39 | #1,957 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 35 | #2,055 | 17.5 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,931 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,258 | 13.9 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,273 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,689 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,925 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,555 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,985 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,323 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,904 | 16.8 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,544 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,774 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,169 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,688 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,889 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,284 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,745 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,904 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,524 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,313 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,876 | 3.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,880 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,531 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,607 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sanchez a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,000 Americans recorded as Sanchez, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sanchez: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sanchez, and how old are they?
An estimated 956 Americans named Sanchez and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 20 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,442 people named Sanchez (274 women and girls, 1,168 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 931 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sanchez born?
The states with the most babies named Sanchez are Georgia, North Carolina and Missouri, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 175 | not ranked | 6.0× |
| North Carolina | 23 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Sanchez is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sanchez is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1960 it was given 6.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sanchez with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sanchez
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sanchez and names like it
- Compare Sanchez and LamarcusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSanchez peaked in 1989.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sanchez since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Sanchez.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sanchez alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.