Vishal

Boys' name · Millennial-era · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US: ~1,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #12,008 among boys
Births in 2025: 5 1,734 since 1880
Typical age: 29 years, median

Vishal popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1970–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2003: 72 births recorded as Vishal. 1970 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. The 2025 position is #12,008, on 5 births.

Over ten years the count has fallen 64%. Year on year the rank improved by 341.

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

How many people are named Vishal?

An estimated 1,700 living Americans are called Vishal. That is out of 1,734 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 Vishal?

Half of living Vishals are older than 29, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1990s. By the site’s era rules that makes Vishal a millennial-era name.

Your Vishal

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 Vishal comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from Sanskrit.

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

Notable people named Vishal

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
Name		Known for	Years	Editions
	Vishal Bhardwaj	Indian film director, screenwriter and composer	1965	20
	Vishal Dadlani	Indian singer, songwriter and music composer	1973	12

Photo credits (2)

Vishal Bhardwaj — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vishal Dadlani — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Vishal

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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