MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gitanjali mean?
Gitanjali combines gīta, song, with añjali, joined hands or a reverent offering. The compound presents songs as an offering, and it is familiar as a Bengali literary title as well as a girl's name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गीतांजलि
Conventional spelling
Bengali
গীতাঞ্জলি
Conventional spelling
Bengali
গীতাঞ্জলী
1,880 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gitanjali in Indian usage
30,418 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 437 |
| 1960s | 1,857 |
| 1970s | 7,233 |
| 1980s | 13,208 |
| 1990s | 7,482 |
| Other decades | 201 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 28,379 |
| Other states | 2,039 |
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
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, gīta, p. 356,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, añjali, p. 11,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.