Anjali
Anjali was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,652 among girls’ names; 5,822 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,740 Americans named Anjali and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anjali by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anjali mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anjali is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अञ्जलि (añjali).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anjali?
#2,652 among girls’ names, 2025
Anjali fell from #1,513 in 2015 to #2,652 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 83.5 to 40.4 per million.
255 babies in 2005, the peak
Anjali peaked in 2005, when 255 girls were given it, #965 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,652 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,437 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,420 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,159 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,288 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 84 | #2,158 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,922 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 97 | #2,014 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,074 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 123 | #1,720 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 149 | #1,513 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,644 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 198 | #1,212 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 177 | #1,327 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 198 | #1,211 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 206 | #1,180 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 229 | #1,111 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 247 | #1,057 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 238 | #1,092 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 251 | #1,019 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 255 | #965 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 210 | #1,090 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 231 | #1,000 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 238 | #939 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 222 | #969 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 230 | #932 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 202 | #1,011 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,707 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,845 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 96 | #1,608 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,896 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,409 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,172 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,347 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,721 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,896 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,336 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,367 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,783 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,568 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,253 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,301 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,070 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,535 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,306 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,344 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,089 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,195 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,260 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,191 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,404 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,837 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,408 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,309 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,712 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,206 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,500 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,590 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,028 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anjali a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anjali has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anjali: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anjali, and how old are they?
5,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,822 Americans ever recorded as Anjali. The median Anjali alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 7,815 people named Anjali (7,814 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,313 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 339 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 768 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,350 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Anjali born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,660 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,227 | 0.7× |
Where Anjali is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anjali is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1964 it was given 2.6 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 girls’ 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 Anjali with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,815 babies since 1880, Anjali is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 76 babies (86%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anjali
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 Anjali and names like it
- Compare Anjali and AnjelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnjali peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anjali since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Anjali: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Anjali.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anjali alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.