Nehal — unisex name

What the Data Says About Nehal

The Social Security Administration has registered 197 babies named Nehal between 1980 and 2023, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nehal currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Nehal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 77 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nehal performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 63 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nehal shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nehal 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 197 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.