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Kapil

Boys' name

Form of Kapila

Kapil has been given to 134 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1984, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Kapil, 2013

1 in 729,000

Kapil over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kapil: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Kapila

Sanskrit

What Kapil means

Kapil is a form of Kapila.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kapil is used in Hindi and Marathi.

Origin, language, and formation

Kapil is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kapila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 134 boys were recorded with the name Kapil between 1980 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1984; its best national rank was #4,382 in 1984.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kapil?

Kapil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kapil sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kapil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kapils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kapil was born before 1996 — so the typical Kapil is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
134
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2000s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Kapil 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 1984 (9)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,382
1984

Spellings of Kapil

Kapil is not the most common spelling — Karl is, with 33.7% against Kapil's 0.04%.

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.

Kapil around the world

Where Kapil 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 & Wales
    1996–2001
    #3,134
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1997–1997
    #1,945
    in 1997

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.

Kapil by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,382
1984
Peak year
1984
9 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kapil

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KapriKaponoKaplanKapKapenaKaponeKaptainKapreeKapish

Sibling names for Kapil

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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