Anjali (अंजलि) is the Sanskrit name for the gesture of pressing the palms together at the heart in greeting or prayer — añjali mudrā. The word also means "offering" or "to offer," particularly an offering made with cupped hands.
Anjali is widely used across India and the South Asian diaspora. The Indian dancer-choreographer Anjali Anand and the character Anjali in the Bollywood film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) are well known. Today the name is rising in Western records.
Anjali does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anjali reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.