MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kunal mean?
The Sanskrit word kuṇāla names a kind of bird. Buddhist literary tradition associates the bird with the Himalayan region; the personal name preserves this older nature word.
Pronunciation
IAST: kuṇāla
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुणाल
Letter-by-letter: kuṇāla
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कुनाल
Letter-by-letter: kunāla
9,217 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kunal in Indian usage
20,547 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling कुणाल.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 165 records (0.8%).
- Recorded as male: 20,382 records (99.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 9,488 |
| 1990s | 9,681 |
| Other decades | 1,378 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 12,978 |
| Jharkhand | 2,597 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,597 |
| Rajasthan | 1,499 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 983 |
| Haryana | 773 |
| Other states | 120 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, kuṇāla, p. 289,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, kunāla, p. 291,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: कुणाल ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.