Given name & surname
Kajal
“a woman with appealing eyes”
Kajal is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “a woman with appealing eyes.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “a woman with appealing eyes.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kajal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 369
- 0 boys · 369 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 36 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 girls is 7 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 36 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,181 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Kajal
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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