Snehal
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Snehal has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1975, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Snehal, 2003
1 in 760,000
Snehal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Snehal over time
In 2003, Snehal went to 55% girls and 45% 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 Snehal?
Snehal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 760,000
- 5 of 3,801,425 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 395,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 526,991 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Snehal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Snehal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Snehals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Snehal was born before 1977 — so the typical Snehal is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 63.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 49.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 49
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 63.3% of all recorded uses (31).
Is Snehal 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1975 (12)
- Years since peak
- 50
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.1% average annual change
Spellings of Snehal
Snehal is not the most common spelling — Neal is, with 93.3% against Snehal's 0.08%.
Snehal around the world
Where Snehal 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.
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Snehal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Snehal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Snehal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.