Payal
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Payal is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 8K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 96Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Payal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 433 | Payal | 216 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Payal | 12 |
| US United States | 2,223 | 1 in 150K | 2.2K | Payal | 256 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Payal | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Payal | 17 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Payal | 10 |
| AU Australia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 104K | 1 | Payal | 91 |
| SG Singapore | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Payal | 22 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ben Payalb. 1988LULuxembourgish footballer
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #7,013 |
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 566 | #3,683 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 27 | — |
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
- Is Payal a male or female name?
- Payal is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and India (India Names Dataset).
- In which country does Payal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 181 thousand people named Payal in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled payal.
- How common is the name Payal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,223 people named Payal in 2020, about 1 in 150 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Payal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/payalThe 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, “Payal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.