Meaning not yet researched.
Kunal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,304 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,304 in 1983; #11,430 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kunal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,430 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #1,304.
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Kunal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,304 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 60 (1994).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kunal, making it the 11,430th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,304, reached in 1983. The most boys given the name in a single year was 60, in 1994. For comparison, it was #7,808 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kunal in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 1,259 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 454 babies named Kunal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 49 US boys were named Kunal; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Conal and Kunaal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Conal (126), Kunaal (65).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kunal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,430 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,682 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #13,244 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,154 |
| 2019 | — | — | 5 | #13,260 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,285 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,571 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #11,553 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,808 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,335 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,291 |
| 2012 | — | — | 15 | #5,873 |
| 2011 | — | — | 14 | #6,124 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,504 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | — | — | 17 | #5,389 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,913 |
| 2006 | — | — | 28 | #3,653 |
| 2005 | — | — | 30 | #3,355 |
| 2004 | — | — | 37 | #2,823 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,893 |
| 2002 | — | — | 37 | #2,620 |
| 2001 | — | — | 43 | #2,327 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,074 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,839 |
| 1998 | — | — | 48 | #2,004 |
| 1997 | — | — | 38 | #2,245 |
| 1996 | — | — | 52 | #1,775 |
| 1995 | — | — | 31 | #2,475 |
| 1994 | — | — | 60 | #1,553 |
| 1993 | — | — | 46 | #1,841 |
| 1992 | — | — | 34 | #2,237 |
| 1991 | — | — | 53 | #1,604 |
| 1990 | — | — | 38 | #1,998 |
| 1989 | — | — | 36 | #2,011 |
| 1988 | — | — | 44 | #1,634 |
| 1987 | — | — | 45 | #1,582 |
| 1986 | — | — | 44 | #1,524 |
| 1985 | — | — | 43 | #1,536 |
| 1984 | — | — | 51 | #1,308 |
| 1983 | — | — | 51 | #1,304 |
| 1982 | — | — | 24 | #2,187 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,328 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,026 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,388 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).