Pranjal
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pranjal has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2002, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 56% girls, 44% boys all-time.
Babies named Pranjal, 2008
1 in 786,000
Pranjal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Pranjal over time
In 2014, Pranjal went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Pranjal?
Pranjal 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 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 378,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pranjal sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pranjal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pranjals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pranjal was born before 2005 — so the typical Pranjal is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 29
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Pranjal 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
- —
- 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 2002 (9)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Pranjal around the world
Where Pranjal 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.
- Canada2018–2018#3,384in 2018
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Pranjal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Pranjal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pranjal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.