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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Anju

Affectionate short form of Anjali or Anjana

Anju means “Affectionate short form of Anjali or Anjana”.

Origin language
Hindi
First letter
A
Historical records
314,617

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Anju mean?

Anju is used as a familiar form of Anjali or Anjana. Anjali denotes cupped hands or an offering, while Anjana is associated with eye salve and with Hanuman's mother.

Pronunciation

IAST: añjū

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

अंजू

Letter-by-letter: añjū

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Anju in Indian usage

314,617 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for girls (98.9%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 311,017 records (98.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 3,600 records (1.1%).

By birth decade

Anju: records by birth decade1920s: 1551920s1940s: 4631940s1950s: 2,6451950s1960s: 15,8791960s1970s: 60,5291970s1980s: 125,1361980s1990s: 109,6631990sOther decades: 147Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1920s155
1940s463
1950s2,645
1960s15,879
1970s60,529
1980s125,136
1990s109,663
Other decades147

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh124,442
Bihar38,795
Haryana29,366
Madhya Pradesh26,280
Rajasthan25,564
Kerala21,909
Delhi19,479
Uttarakhand9,929
Himachal Pradesh8,335
Jharkhand7,439
Chandigarh1,099
Arunachal Pradesh342
Meghalaya317
Andhra Pradesh269
Goa210
Sikkim194
Manipur112
Andaman and Nicobar Islands109
Tripura109
Nagaland105
Other states213
How to read these numbers

Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.

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Sources

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001