How rare is the name Anjali?

7,815 people in the United States have the first name Anjali, about 1 in 38,648. It ranks #2,911 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ANJALI

#2,911

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,815
About
1 in 38,648
This common or more
81.2%
Who bears it

Of the 7,815 people named Anjali, 74.1% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 11.8% as two or more races and 5.6% as White. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Anjali peaked in 2005, when 255 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19642025
Peak year
2005
Births that year
255
In 2025*
65 ▼75%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,822 babies have been given the name since 1964. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Anjali by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,837. The largest share of babies named Anjali, 56.8%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#10,01038
1970s#4,227288
1980s#3,821425
1990s#3,161780
2000s#1,8372,351
2010s#2,7211,475
2020s#4,205465
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–806.2%
Millennials 1981–9613.6%
Generation Z 1997–1256.8%
2013 and later23.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Anjali is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Anjali has been most common in New Jersey (3.9×), California (2.4×), and New York (2.2×), and least common in Ohio (0.3×).

3,951 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Anjali

#2,909 Basil · 7,831#2,910 Johnpaul · 7,819#2,912 Bao · 7,814#2,913 Starr · 7,810

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Anjali, most common first.

#18,286 Anjuli · 591#40,051 Anjoli · 187#43,336 Anjeli · 163

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