Kajal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəjæɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kajal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 282K(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 2K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 74K
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 Kajal 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 named Kajol, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kajal 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #772 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Kajal | 38 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Kajal | 21 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Kajal | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,181 | 1 in 282K | 1.1K | Kajal | 198 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 340K | — | Kajal | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Kajal | 28 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Kajal | 22 |
| GY Guyana | — | 15as Kajol | 1 in 50K | 15 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kajal is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dra-sou-pro, a k. of fish (carp)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Finnish, alternative form of kajaali (“kohl”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, adessive singular of kaja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Kohl.
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)
- Kajal Ahmadb. 1967IQKurdish poet, writer and journalist
- Kajal Aggarwalb. 1985INIndian actress (born 1985)
- Kajal Kumarib. 1999INIndian carrom player
- Kajal MishraINIndian actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 46 | #11,023 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 13 | #581 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 7 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kajal?
- A machine transcription gives /kəjæɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kajal a male or female name?
- Kajal is a female 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 Kajal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Kajol in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kajal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,181 people named Kajal in 2020, about 1 in 282 thousand residents.
- How common is Kajal compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Kajal is the 772nd most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kajal?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kajalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kajal” — the 772nd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.