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Vipul

Boys' name

Spaciousness, thickness, breadth, largeness, through विपुल

Vipul has been given to 70 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1976, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Vipul, 1985

1 in 595,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vipul: meaning, origin, and history

Spaciousness, thickness, breadth, largeness, through विपुल

Sanskrit

What Vipul means

Vipul belongs to the name family reached through Vipul → विपुल. Its meaning is “spaciousness, thickness, breadth, largeness”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vipul is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vipul comes through Sanskrit विपुल.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include विपुल.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 70 boys were recorded with the name Vipul between 1972 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1976; its best national rank was #3,714 in 1976.

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 Vipul?

Vipul had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1985, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1985
1 in 595,000
6 of 3,568,740 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1985
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
412,278 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vipul 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 1985 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 412,278 children born in 1985 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vipul. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vipuls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vipul was born before 1976 — so the typical Vipul is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
71.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
70
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 71.4% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Vipul 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 1976 (10)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,714
1976

Spellings of Vipul

Vipul is not the most common spelling — Vidal is, with 98.4% against Vipul's 1.6%.

  • Vidal98.4%4,237
  • Vipul1.6%70

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.

Vipul 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
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Best rank ever
#3,714
1976
Peak year
1976
10 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
70
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vipul

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

Viper

Sibling names for Vipul

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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