Given name · also Sanskrit
Vimal
“one who is clean, pure”
Vimal is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “one who is clean, pure.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who is clean, pure.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
The name draws on Sanskrit vimala, meaning “stainless, pure”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vimal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 97
- 97 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 12 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 5 in 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1987. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 913 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.
Vimal’s family of names
Vimal has a feminine form in Vimala. Vimal has a related form in Vimall. Vimal has a related form in Vymal.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Vimal
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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