Kajol
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kajol has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Kajol, 2005
1 in 641,000
Kajol over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kajol?
Kajol had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 641,000
- 6 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 308,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 444,107 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kajol sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kajol. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kajols were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kajol was born before 1998 — so the typical Kajol is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 72.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 66
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 72.7% of all recorded uses (48).
Is Kajol rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1999 (15)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kajol
Kajol is not the most common spelling — Carol is, with 97.3% against Kajol's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Kajol around the world
Where Kajol ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2010#5,707in 2010
- Canada1995–2000#1,996in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kajol by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kajol
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kajol
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.