Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
It comes from the Sanskrit word go, meaning “cow.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gopal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 92
- 92 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,702 as a first name in 2020; 1,751 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gopal’s family of names
In English usage, Gopal as a surname has a related form in GOPAUL.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Gopal
- Gopal Krishna GokhaleIndian political leader and social reformer (1866–1915)
- Gopal Swarup PathakIndian politician and judge (1896-1982)
- Gopal GodseAssinator of Gandhi1919–2005
- Gopal SharmaIndian cricket playerborn 1960
- Gopal BoseIndian cricket player. (1947-2018)
- Gopal Ballav Pattanaik32nd Chief Justice of Indiaborn 1937
- Gopal Bharcourt jester in medieval Bengal
- Gopal Ganesh Agarkarsocial reformer, educationist, thinker from Maharashtra, India during the British rule (1856-1895)
- Gopal MittalIndian writer1906–1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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