Payal — girls' name

What the Data Says About Payal

The Social Security Administration has registered 674 babies named Payal between 1975 and 2015, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Payal currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 34 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Payal performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 271 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Payal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 101 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Payal in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Payal 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 674 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.