Given name
Kushal
“a talented man; adroit”
Kushal is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “a talented man; adroit.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “a talented man; adroit.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
How it developed
From Sanskrit कुशल (“skillful, proficient, adept”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kushal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 523
- 523 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,452 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −36%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,452 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 36.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 24 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,224 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.
Kushal’s family of names
Kushal has a related form in Kushall. In English usage, Kushal has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form कुशल.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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.
People named Kushal
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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