Vishal
Vishal was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,769 among boys’ names; 1,734 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Vishal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vishal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vishal mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vishal is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit विशाल (viśāla).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vishal?
#13,769 among boys’ names, 2025
Vishal fell from #6,296 in 2015 to #13,769 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
72 babies in 2003, the peak
Vishal peaked in 2003, when 72 boys were given it, #1,712 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,769 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #14,133 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,228 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,926 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,633 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,034 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,296 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,707 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,153 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,276 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | #5,182 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #5,031 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,309 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,002 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,763 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,444 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,290 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,337 | 24.7 |
| 2003 | 72 | #1,712 | 36.4 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,062 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 60 | #1,865 | 30.9 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,127 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,667 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 61 | #1,696 | 31.9 |
| 1997 | 51 | #1,854 | 27.1 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,811 | 26.9 |
| 1995 | 66 | #1,471 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 59 | #1,575 | 30.5 |
| 1993 | 56 | #1,611 | 28.6 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,207 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 54 | #1,582 | 26.7 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,834 | 20.9 |
| 1989 | 48 | #1,652 | 24.0 |
| 1988 | 57 | #1,390 | 29.8 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,363 | 29.5 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,284 | 31.5 |
| 1985 | 42 | #1,566 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 34 | #1,718 | 18.8 |
| 1983 | 37 | #1,629 | 20.6 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,591 | 21.5 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,658 | 20.1 |
| 1980 | 39 | #1,567 | 21.9 |
| 1979 | 27 | #1,990 | 15.7 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,275 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,903 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,464 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,309 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,452 | 10.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,681 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,950 | 4.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,410 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vishal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vishal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vishal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vishal, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,734 Americans ever recorded as Vishal. The median Vishal alive today is 30 years old; half are between 23 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 5,523 people named Vishal (21 women and girls, 5,502 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,667 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 143 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 733 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 701 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 92 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Vishal born?
The states with the most babies named Vishal are California, New York and New Jersey, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 254 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 193 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 170 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Illinois | 80 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Vishal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vishal is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Vishal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,821 babies since 1880, Vishal is the most given (95% 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 Vishal
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 Vishal and names like it
- Compare Vishal and VishaalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sVishal peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vishal since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Vishal: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Vishal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Vishal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with VMost given first.