Given name & surname
Mukul
“one who is flourishing”
Mukul is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “one who is flourishing.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who is flourishing.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
How it developed
A transliteration of Hindi मुकुल, from Sanskrit मुकुल.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mukul through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 13 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 7 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 7 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 495 as a first name in 2020; 159 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.
Mukul’s family of names
Mukul has a related form in Mehul. Mukul has a related form in Mehule. Mukul has a related form in Mukoul.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
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 Mukul
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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