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Sanja Sanja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAHN-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Dream (Croatian-Serbian + Sanja Vučić Eurovision Serbia 2016)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Croatian)

A name that means "dream (croatian-serbian + sanja vučić eurovision serbia 2016)".

Sanja is from the Croatian / Serbian Sanja — dream. Sanja is one of the South Slavic feminine names — central to traditional Croatian Catholic + Serbian Orthodox heritage.

Dream (Croatian-Serbian-South Slavic).

The name in its native script.

Sanja
Transliteration
Sanja
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑːn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sanja stands.

Sanja does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sanjas before her.

Real people
Sanja Vučić
Serbian singer + Eurovision 2016 Goodbye (Shelter) + 2021 Hurricane Loco Loco.
born 1993
In fiction
Sanja
Croatian-Serbian dream.

Names connected to Sanja.

The number behind Sanja.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sanja reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.