Given name
Komal
“a delicate and tender woman”
Komal is a variant of Komala. One Indian interpretation is “a delicate and tender woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Komal is a variant of Komala. One Indian interpretation is “a delicate and tender woman.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Komal is a variant of Komala. An origin associated with Komala is Indian.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Sanskrit कोमल (“soft, delicate, tender”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Komal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 631
- 0 boys · 631 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 41 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 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 41 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,492 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.
Komal’s family of names
Komal has a related form in Komala. In English usage, Komal has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form कोमल. In Hindi usage, Komal is a Roman-alphabet rendering of कोमल.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Komal
- Queen Komal of NepalQueen Consort of King Gyanendra of Nepalborn 1951
- Komal KothariIndian folklorist1929–2004
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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