Anju
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Site in Korea of the AD 612 battle where Sui forces were defeated by Eulji Mundeok
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 58K
- USUnited States1 in 158K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Site in Korea of the AD 612 battle where Sui forces were defeated by Eulji Mundeok.
Sources 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anju counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 2 | Anju | 52 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Anju | 27 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Anju | 72 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Anju | 45 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Anju | 18 |
| US United States | — | 2,107 | 1 in 158K | 2.1K | Anju | 262 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Anju | 20 |
| IN India | #284 | — | — | 39 | Anju | 209 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Anju is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Korean, Place on the north beacon route.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
In mnc, Romanization of ᠠᠨᠵᡠ (anju)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yrl, angel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anju Mahendrub. 1946INIndian actress
- Anju Chadhab. 1955INIndian biochemist
- Anju Dodiyab. 1964INIndian artist (born 1964)
- Kakkob. 1969JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor and singer
- Anju Bobby Georgeb. 1977INIndian long jumper
- Anju Balab. 1979INIndian politician
- Anju Jainb. 1994INcricketer
- Anju Gurungb. 1994BTBhutanese cricketer (born 1994)
- Anju Inamib. 1996JPJapanese actress and voice actress
- Anju IdaJPJapanese stage actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Anju mean, and where does it come from?
- Site in Korea of the AD 612 battle where Sui forces were defeated by Eulji Mundeok. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- Is Anju a male or female name?
- Anju is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Anju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Anju in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anju.
- How common is the name Anju?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,107 people named Anju in 2020, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
- How common is Anju compared with other names?
- In India, Anju is the 284th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anjuThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anju” — the 284th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.