Vishal

#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births

Peak · boys
1986 · 58 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,734
since 1970

Vishal over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Vishal has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201970peak #1,269, 1986boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#12,0085
2024#12,3495
2023
2022#10,8636
2021
2020#10,6056
2019
2018
2017#8,8408
2016#5,78915
2015#5,99914
2014#5,48516
2013#4,98118
2012#6,00114
2011#4,98318
2010#4,84819
2009#5,10218
2008#2,94640
2007#2,72144
2006#2,39851
2005#2,26552
2004#2,31649
2003#1,70272
2002#2,04653
2001#1,84160
2000#2,08748
1999#1,65564
1998#1,68061
1997#1,83651
1996#1,78551
1995#1,46766
1994#1,56459
1993#1,60156
1992#2,17435
1991#1,57354
1990#1,80943
1989#1,64148
1988#1,37357
1987#1,33755
1986#1,26958
1985#1,54442
1984#1,69034
1983#1,59437
1982#1,56339
1981#1,62936
1980#1,54739
1979#1,94327
1978#2,20521
1977#2,79115
1976#3,26411
1975#5,4645
1974#2,35817
1973#3,4459
1972#3,6228
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five boys were named Vishal! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Vishal
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 341 spots since 2024 (#12,349#12,008)
  • 1,403 spots since 2020 (#10,605#12,008)
  • 6,009 spots since 2015 (#5,999#12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
16 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 1986 at #1,269 (58 births)
  • Births halved by 2009, 23 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 27,435
  • Highest: 1 in 27,435 boys born in 2003 were named Vishal (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,269 in 1986, was only 1 in 31,750 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 31.1% of all boys named Vishal (540) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s118#1,943 (1979)#3,313
1980s445#1,269 (1986)#1,519
1990s540#1,467 (1995)#1,714
2000s487#1,702 (2003)#2,542
2010s122#4,848 (2010)#5,866
2020s22#10,605 (2020)#11,456

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Vishal in 1970

boys
#4,724
5 births · 1 in 371,646 boys

Top boys' names in 1970

  1. #1Michael85,266
  2. #2James61,735
  3. #3David61,728
  4. #4John58,491
  5. #5Robert57,177
  6. #6Christopher41,747
  7. #7William38,887
  8. #8Brian31,917
  9. #9Mark31,461
  10. #10Richard30,442
  11. #4,724Vishal5
More about 1970

boys

1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 371,646 of them was named Vishal, which outranked 13.0% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Vishal
  1. #4,230Zeljko6
  2. #4,230Zenas6
  3. #4,230Zubin6
  4. #4,724Vishal5
  5. #4,724Abelino5
  6. #4,724Abimael5
  7. #4,724Adolpho5

Tied with 709 names at #4,724; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. 3,783Jermaine#4,404#621
  2. 1,000Dax#1,861#861
  3. 842Jeramy#1,810#968
  4. 639Branden#1,570#931
  5. 407Braden#1,396#989
Fallers
  1. 593Jemal#549#1,142
  2. 307Karen#885#1,192
  3. 307Merlin#885#1,192
  4. 302Dennie#920#1,222
  5. 276Luciano#931#1,207

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1970