Meaning not yet researched.
Anjali: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #933 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #933 in 2000; #2,652 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anjali in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,652 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #933.
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Anjali: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 girls in 2025. Peak: #933 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 255 (2005).
In 2025, 65 US girls were named Anjali, making it the 2,652nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 215 places from #2,437 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 74 girls named Anjali in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #933, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 255, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,513 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anjali in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 6 babies. In all, 5,822 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,351 babies named Anjali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 882 US girls were named Anjali; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 123. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anjali ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,660 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Anjuli, Anjolie and Anjalee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anjuli (551), Anjolie (423), Anjalee (160), Anjoli (141), Anjeli (78), Anjulie (53), Anjalie (39), Anjelia (19), Anjely (15), Anjaly (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Anjali in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,660 | #1,210 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,227 | #1,722 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,652 | — | — |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,288 | — | — |
| 2020 | 84 | #2,158 | — | — |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 2018 | 97 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 2016 | 123 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 2015 | 149 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2013 | 198 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2012 | 177 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 2011 | 198 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 2010 | 206 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 2009 | 229 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 2008 | 247 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 2007 | 238 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 2006 | 251 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 2005 | 255 | #965 | — | — |
| 2004 | 210 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 2003 | 231 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 2002 | 238 | #939 | — | — |
| 2001 | 222 | #970 | — | — |
| 2000 | 230 | #933 | — | — |
| 1999 | 202 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1996 | 96 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,192 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,405 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,310 | — | — |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,168 | — | — |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,501 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,591 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,577 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,029 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).