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Anjana

#12,027 in 2025Girls' name

Kohl, collyrium

Anjana has been given to 573 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #12,027 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Anjana, 2025

1 in 474,000

Anjana 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anjana: meaning, origin, and history

Kohl, collyrium

Sanskrit

What Anjana means

Anjana means “kohl, collyrium”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Anjana is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Malayalam, Tamil and Hinduism.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɐɲ.d͡ʒɐ.nɐ/, /ˈɐɲ.d͡ʑɐ.n̪ɑː/ and /ˈɐɲ.d͡ʑɐ.n̪ɐ/ for Anjana.

Origin, language, and formation

Anjana is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 573 girls were recorded with the name Anjana between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2013; its best national rank was #4,907 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,262 in 2020 to #12,027 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,305 in 2015 to #12,027 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 Anjana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,027
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anjana 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anjana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anjanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anjana was born before 2006 — so the typical Anjana is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
573
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (187).

Is Anjana 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
−1,689
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+235
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,722
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 2013 (28)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,907
2013

Spellings of Anjana

Anjana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 72.1% against Anjana's 0.05%.

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 Anjana is used

Across 1910–2025, Anjana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 861,352 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Anjana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anjana around the world

Where Anjana 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
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    2009–2021
    #6,282
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #692
    in 1989

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

Anjana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,027
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 235
Best rank ever
#4,907
2013
Peak year
2013
28 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
573
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Anjana

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

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Sibling names for Anjana

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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