Entry № 3578 · Sanskrit origin

Geetanjali Geetanjali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ghee-tahn-JAH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Song offerings (Tagore Nobel Prize 1913)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Sanskrit)

A name that means "song offerings (tagore nobel prize 1913)".

Geetanjali is from the Sanskrit गीतांजलि (Gītāñjali — gīta song + añjali offering of folded palms — song offerings, offering of songs). Geetanjali is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Bengali + Hindu heritage. B.

Song offerings (Sanskrit). B.

The name in its native script.

गीतांजलि
Transliteration
Gītāñjali
Pronunciation
/ ɡiː.tɑːnˈdʒɑː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Geetanjali stands.

Geetanjali 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.

Geetanjalis before her.

Real people
Rabindranath Tagore
Composed Gitanjali 1910 + Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 + first Asian Nobel laureate + composed national anthems of India + Bangladesh + Sri Lanka.
1861 – 1941
In fiction
Geetanjali
Sanskrit song offerings + Tagore's Nobel collection.
Gitanjali

Names connected to Geetanjali.

The number behind Geetanjali.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Geetanjali reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.