Kunal

Boys' name · Millennial-era · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US: ~1,200 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #10,695 among boys
Births in 2025: 6 1,259 since 1880
Typical age: 29 years, median

Kunal popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1977–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1994: 60 births recorded as Kunal. The name does not appear in the data until 1977. The 2025 position is #10,695, on 6 births.

Over ten years the count has fallen 40%.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Kunal?

Roughly 1,200 Kunals are alive in the US right now. That is out of 1,259 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Kunal?

The typical living Kunal is 29 years old. The 1990s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Kunal a millennial-era name.

Your Kunal

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where the name Kunal comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit कुणाल.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Kunal

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Kunal Nayyar	English actor	1981	48
Kunal Khemu	Indian actor	1983	21
Kunal Ganjawala	Indian singer	1972	19
Kunal Kohli	Indian film director	2000	17
Kunal Singh	Indian actor	1977–2008	9