Vishal

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Vishal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 1.9K
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vishal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nepal (inferred from the name graph)

≈84,000 named Bishal, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
341 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VishalLatin(measured from records)
বিশালBengali(measured from records)
วิชาลThai(measured from records)
ვიშალGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bishal in NP Nepal, BD Bangladesh, QA Qatar and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vishal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Vishal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NP Nepal—≈84,000 est.≈1 in 3603Bishal91
CN China—≈23,000 est.≈1 in 62K—Vishal17
BD Bangladesh—≈18,000 est.≈1 in 9.1K—Bishal32
ID Indonesia—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 17K—Vishal46
PK Pakistan—≈8,400 est.≈1 in 28K—Vishal38
US United States—5,5231 in 60K5.5KVishal341
AE United Arab Emirates—≈3,300 est.≈1 in 3K—Bishal15
QA Qatar#296≈660 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Bishal14
GY Guyana—3971 in 1.9K397—1
IN India#134——3.2KVishal327

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vishal is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Vîshãl, Vīshāl, Vishâl, Víshäl, Vïshäl

  • Russian given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Вишал, Višal, Вішал, Visal, Висал

  • Japanese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Japan, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Vïshäl, Višhal

  • Danish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Vîshål

  • Czech given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Czechia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Vîšhãĺ, Víšhàĺ, Víšhãl, Víšhâl, Vïšhäl

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Víšhäĺ

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Vishal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Vishal Mangalwadi, b. 1949Vishal Bhardwaj, b. 1965Vishal Taklani, b. 1973Vishal Sareen, b. 1973Vishal Sinha, b. 1975Vishal Gondal, b. 1976Vishal Malhotra, b. 1981Vishal Karwal, b. 1984

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 42 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Vishal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.5K#3,681
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—5.1K#1,016
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025397#249
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202021#3,681
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20255—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)20143—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19931—
IN IndiaIndian names with gender (Kaggle)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Vishal a male or female name?
Vishal is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Vishal have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named Bishal in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vishal most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vishal is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Nepal holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Vishal?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,523 people named Vishal in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
How common is Vishal compared with other names?
In India, Vishal is the 134th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vishal” — the 134th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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