Sandeep — boys' name
806 babies named Sandeep in U.S. Social Security records since 1966, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Sandeep was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Sandeep in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sandeep
The Social Security Administration has registered 806 babies named Sandeep between 1966 and 2012, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sandeep currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Sandeep is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 115 additional births since 1976.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sandeep performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 240 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sandeep shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 152 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Sandeep in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sandeep in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 806 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sandeep at a glance
Last recorded 2012Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sandeep popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–1966
- Peak year (1989)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2012.
806 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 33 births in a single year.
Sandeep popularity over time — girls
115 total births recorded since 1976 (Sandeep as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Sandeep accounts for 12% of total recorded use across both genders.
Sandeep by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 240 births that decade — 30% of Sandeep's all-time total
Sandeep decade highlights
- Peak decade 240 births
- Runner-up 222 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Sandeep's strongest decade
240 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Sandeep by state
Where Sandeep concentrates geographically — total births since 1966
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 152 | 18.9% |
| #2 | New York | | 59 | 7.3% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 8 | 1.0% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.6% |
152 of 806 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 18.9% of nationwide
- New York 7.3% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.0% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 18.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1966–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.