Bijal — girls' name
128 babies named Bijal in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1984. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Bijal was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Bijal in 1984 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Bijal
The Social Security Administration has registered 128 babies named Bijal between 1978 and 2000, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bijal currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Bijal performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 60 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Bijal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bijal in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Bijal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 128 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Bijal at a glance
Last recorded 2000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Bijal popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–1978
- Peak year (1984)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2000.
128 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1984 with 13 births in a single year.
Bijal by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 60 births that decade — 47% of Bijal's all-time total
Bijal decade highlights
- Peak decade 60 births
- Runner-up 46 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Bijal's strongest decade
60 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Bijal by state
Where Bijal concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New Jersey | | 5 | 3.9% |
5 of 128 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New Jersey 3.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New Jersey accounts for 3.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1978–2000 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.