Anjali
Anjali means Meanings families give: Offering, tribute; Offering with folded hands, devotion; Offering, gift, tribute; Offering, tribute with folded hands; Offering, tribute, folded hands; Offering, gift, salutation.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Malayalam / Sanskrit-Marathi / Sanskrit-Odia / Sanskrit-Telugu |
| Language | Hindi / Malayalam / Marathi / Odia / Telugu |
| Starts with | A |
Traditional associations
In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.
- Rashi: Mesh
- Nakshatra: Bharani
- More names starting with A
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Offering, tribute; Offering with folded hands, devotion; Offering, gift, tribute; Offering, tribute with folded hands; Offering, tribute, folded hands; Offering, gift, salutation”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Puspanjali — Offering of flowers, floral tribute
- Rupanjali — An offering of beauty; beautiful tribute
- Naman — Meanings families give: Salutation, bowing in reverence and respect; Salutation, bowing in respect; Salutation, bow
- Pranjali — Humble salutation, simple and sincere
- Archana — Meanings families give: Worship, one who worships the divine; Worship, prayer, homage; Worship, offering, prayer; Worshipping, offering of prayers; Worship, offering prayers
- Geetanjali — Meanings families give: Offering of songs, musical garland; Offering of songs; collection of devotional songs; Offering of songs; Tagore work
More girls' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Malayalam / Sanskrit-Marathi / Sanskrit-Odia / Sanskrit-Telugu origin
- Kalyani — Meanings families give: Auspicious, one who brings welfare; Auspicious, beautiful, fortunate; Auspicious, bestower of good fortune; Auspicious, fortunate, goddess Lakshmi; Auspicious, blessed, prosperous
Other names under Mesh rashi
- Aarav — Meanings families give: Peaceful, calm; Peaceful, calm, wise; Peaceful sound, wisdom; Calm, peaceful
- Aradhya — Worthy of worship
- Arjun — Meanings families give: Bright, shining, white; Bright, shining, the Pandava hero; Bright, shining, white, the Pandava hero; Bright, silver, the third Pandava; Bright, shining like silver and pure; Bright, shining, silver
- Aryan — Noble, of high birth
- Aadya — First, Goddess Durga
- Aarohi — Meanings families give: Musical ascending notes; Ascending musical note, progressing; Musical note; ascending; Musical note, ascending
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Mesh names.
Where this comes from
Anjali has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.