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Anjali

#2,652 in 2025Girls' name

Salutation

Anjali has been given to 5,822 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #2,652 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 255 recorded.

Babies named Anjali, 2025

1 in 51,000

Anjali over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anjali: meaning, origin, and history

Salutation

Sanskrit

What Anjali means

Anjali means “salutation”.

Origin, language, and formation

Anjali is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,822 girls were recorded with the name Anjali between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 255 in 2005; its best national rank was #932 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,158 in 2020 to #2,652 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,513 in 2015 to #2,652 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anjali?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,652
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anjali sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anjali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anjalis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anjali was born before 2005 — so the typical Anjali is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,822
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (2,351).

Is Anjali rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−215
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−494
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,139
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.5%
Peak was 2005 (255)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#932
2000

Spellings of Anjali

Anjali is not the most common spelling — Anahi is, with 35.3% against Anjali's 10.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Anjali is used

Across 2016–2025, Anjali was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 18,236 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2New York1 in 11,111
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 12,500
  4. 4Maryland1 in 14,286
  5. 5Florida1 in 16,667
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  7. 7Texas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Anjali around the world

Where Anjali ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2007
    #744
    in 2007
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1987–2025
    #2,288
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Anjali

People whose public names include Anjali, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Anjali by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,652
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 494
Best rank ever
#932
2000
Peak year
2005
255 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,822
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Anjali

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Anjali

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anjali, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Anjali

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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