Gitanjali as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Gitanjali

What is the meaning of the name Gitanjali ?

The baby name Gitanjali is a Female name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced IPA: /ɡiːtɑːnˈdʒɑːli/; respelling: gee-TAHN-jah-lee.

Gitanjali is Indian, Sanskrit in Origin.

Gitanjali is a feminine Indian given name from Sanskrit Gītāñjali, a compound of gīta (“song, chant, hymn”) and añjali (“offering, reverential salutation made with folded hands”). The composite sense is “song offering” or “an offering of songs,” evoking devotional music and poetic homage across Indo-Aryan languages.

The name gained widespread recognition through Rabindranath Tagore’s celebrated poetry collection Gitanjali (1910; English 1912, Song Offerings), whose global fame after the 1913 Nobel Prize helped spread the name beyond Bengal to pan‑Indian and diaspora communities. Common variants and transliterations include Geetanjali, Geethanjali, and the diacritic form Gītāñjali; related or shortened forms are Gita/Geeta, Anjali, Geetu, Gitu, and Anju. Usage has remained steady from the mid‑20th century onward, favored for its literary prestige and spiritual resonance, and it appears in arts, education, and cultural institutions as well as in personal names.