Vishaal
Vishaal was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 87 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vishaal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vishaal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,221, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1990, the peak
Vishaal peaked in 1990, when 12 boys were given it, #4,653 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #14,221 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,974 | 3.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,527 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,601 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #12,223 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #9,073 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,848 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,583 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,583 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,813 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #10,096 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,384 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,653 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vishaal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vishaal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vishaal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vishaal, and how old are they?
An estimated 85 Americans named Vishaal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 186 people named Vishaal (3 women and girls, 183 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Vishaal?
Vishaal is a less common spelling of Vishal: SSA has recorded 87 Vishaal and 1,734 Vishal since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,821 babies since 1880, Vishaal is the second most given (4.8% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vishaal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Vishaal and names like it
- Compare Vishaal and VishalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sVishaal peaked in 1990.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Vishaal.
- Names starting with VMost given first.