Given name
Nakul
“mongoose”
Nakul is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “mongoose.”
Meaning & origin
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
Nakul through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 205
- 205 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,305 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,305 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 514 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.
Nakul’s family of names
In English usage, Nakul has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form नकुल.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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