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Mukul

Boys' name

Transliteration of म

Mukul has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2008, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Mukul, 2008

1 in 562,000

Mukul over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mukul: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of म

Sanskrit

What Mukul means

Mukul is a transliteration of म.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Hindi मुकुल (mukul), in turn borrowed from Sanskrit मुकुल (mukula).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mukul (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Mukul is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include म.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 boys were recorded with the name Mukul between 2004 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2008; its best national rank was #10,658 in 2008.

How common is Mukul?

Mukul had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 562,000
7 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
389,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mukul 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 2008 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 389,226 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mukul. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mukuls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mukul was born before 2008 — so the typical Mukul is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Mukul 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 2008 (7)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,658
2008

Spellings of Mukul

Mukul is not the most common spelling — Mikel is, with 49.8% against Mukul's 0.06%.

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.

Mukul around the world

Where Mukul 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
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Mukul 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
#10,658
2008
Peak year
2008
7 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mukul

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

MukilMuktarMukeshNikulMukundMukundaMukhtarNakulGokulMukarramMukhammadAkulMukhammadaliMukhammadyusuf

Sibling names for Mukul

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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