Anjali
#2,645 for girls in 2025, 65 births
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 230 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,822since 1964
Anjali over time
Rank among girls' names. Anjali has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,645 | 65 |
| 2024 | #2,434 | 74 |
| 2023 | #2,415 | 74 |
| 2022 | #2,156 | 88 |
| 2021 | #2,286 | 80 |
| 2020 | #2,156 | 84 |
| 2019 | #1,919 | 103 |
| 2018 | #2,014 | 97 |
| 2017 | #2,074 | 94 |
| 2016 | #1,719 | 123 |
| 2015 | #1,513 | 149 |
| 2014 | #1,643 | 130 |
| 2013 | #1,210 | 198 |
| 2012 | #1,326 | 177 |
| 2011 | #1,210 | 198 |
| 2010 | #1,180 | 206 |
| 2009 | #1,110 | 229 |
| 2008 | #1,057 | 247 |
| 2007 | #1,092 | 238 |
| 2006 | #1,018 | 251 |
| 2005 | #965 | 255 |
| 2004 | #1,091 | 210 |
| 2003 | #1,000 | 231 |
| 2002 | #939 | 238 |
| 2001 | #970 | 222 |
| 2000 | #933 | 230 |
| 1999 | #1,012 | 202 |
| 1998 | #1,709 | 93 |
| 1997 | #1,845 | 80 |
| 1996 | #1,609 | 96 |
| 1995 | #1,900 | 73 |
| 1994 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 1993 | #2,176 | 61 |
| 1992 | #2,351 | 55 |
| 1991 | #3,722 | 28 |
| 1990 | #2,900 | 39 |
| 1989 | #2,338 | 50 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 1986 | #2,564 | 38 |
| 1985 | #2,253 | 45 |
| 1984 | #2,299 | 42 |
| 1983 | #2,069 | 48 |
| 1982 | #2,532 | 37 |
| 1981 | #2,305 | 43 |
| 1980 | #2,342 | 41 |
| 1979 | #2,088 | 48 |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 |
| 1976 | #3,188 | 22 |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 |
| 1974 | #2,835 | 25 |
| 1973 | #2,405 | 31 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #3,166 | 21 |
| 1970 | #2,705 | 26 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anjali! It came in at #6,009, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Anjali is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#465 · 1 in 2,326
- New York#564 · 1 in 2,908
- Maryland#686 · 1 in 3,476
- Virginia#719 · 1 in 3,961
- Florida#734 · 1 in 4,189
Best ever in a state: #226 in New Jersey, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #465 | 16 | 1 in 2,326 |
| New York | #564 | 32 | 1 in 2,908 |
| Maryland | #686 | 7 | 1 in 3,476 |
| Virginia | #719 | 9 | 1 in 3,961 |
| Florida | #734 | 19 | 1 in 4,189 |
| Massachusetts | #737 | 6 | 1 in 4,261 |
| Washington | #738 | 8 | 1 in 3,790 |
| California | #1,051 | 31 | 1 in 6,807 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,085 | 7 | 1 in 7,559 |
| Ohio | #1,232 | 6 | 1 in 8,627 |
| Texas | #1,370 | 17 | 1 in 9,390 |
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See more about Anjali
- 211 spots since 2024 (#2,434 → #2,645)
- 489 spots since 2020 (#2,156 → #2,645)
- 1,132 spots since 2015 (#1,513 → #2,645)
- Biggest jump: 126 spots in 2005 (#1,091 → #965)
- Biggest drop: 91 spots in 2004 (#1,000 → #1,091)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2000 at #933 (230 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2000–2003
- Highest: 1 in 7,246 girls born in 2005 were named Anjali (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #933 in 2000, was only 1 in 7,896 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.4% of all girls named Anjali (2,351) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 38 | #4,198 (1969) | #5,560 |
| 1970s | 288 | #2,088 (1979) | #2,854 |
| 1980s | 425 | #2,069 (1983) | #2,385 |
| 1990s | 780 | #1,012 (1999) | #2,164 |
| 2000s | 2,351 | #933 (2000) | #1,018 |
| 2010s | 1,475 | #1,180 (2010) | #1,581 |
| 2020s | 465 | #2,156 (2022) | #2,349 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anjali in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
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1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 8,629 of them was named Anjali, which outranked 94.1% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,165Scarlette208
- #1,178Addie207
- #1,178Mercy207
- #1,180Anjali206
- #1,180Chelsey206
- #1,180Izzabella206
- #1,180Jazzlyn206
- #1,185Aviana205
- #1,185Jalynn205
- #1,185Jordin205
Tied with 4 names at #1,180; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.