Given name & surname
Kaushal
“one who is skilled”
Kaushal is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “one who is skilled.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who is skilled.”
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 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kaushal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 119
- 119 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 17 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 6 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 824 as a first name in 2020; 1,103 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.
Kaushal’s family of names
Kaushal has a related form in Kaushall. Kaushal has a related form in Koshal. Kaushal has a related form in Koshall.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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