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Vishal

#13,769 in 2025Boys' name

Away + enclosure, wall, through विशाल

Vishal has been given to 1,734 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #13,769 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Vishal, 2025

1 in 663,000

Vishal over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vishal: meaning, origin, and history

Away + enclosure, wall, through विशाल

Sanskrit

What Vishal means

Vishal belongs to the name family reached through Vishal → विशाल. Its meaning is “away + enclosure, wall”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vishal is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vishal comes through Sanskrit विशाल.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include विशाल.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,734 boys were recorded with the name Vishal between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 72 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,284 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,926 in 2020 to #13,769 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,296 in 2015 to #13,769 in 2025.

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 Vishal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,769
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vishal 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vishal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vishals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vishal was born before 1995 — so the typical Vishal is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,734
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1990s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (540).

Is Vishal 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
+364
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,843
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,473
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.9%
Peak was 2003 (72)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,284
1986

Spellings of Vishal

Vishal is not the most common spelling — Vidal is, with 21.1% against Vishal's 8.6%.

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.

Where Vishal is used

Across 1910–2025, Vishal was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 101,743 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vishal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vishal around the world

Where Vishal 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
    1996–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • France
    1980–2014
    #6,718
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1988–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vishal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,769
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,843
Best rank ever
#1,284
1986
Peak year
2003
72 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,734
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Vishal

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

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Sibling names for Vishal

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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