Nimal

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nimal is a given name, most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 1.4K◐
  • SESweden1 in 249K
  • ITItaly1 in 550K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈148 ●

across 5 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
60 ●

2.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 249K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

NimalLatin · Sinhala●1.9K records
නිමලSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nimal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka#1169881.7K rec.——Nimal52
IN India—141124 rec.—38Nimal29
GB United Kingdom—10047 rec.——Nimal35
US United States—93427 rec.1 in 3.6M93Nimal60
IT Italy—9294 rec.—1Nimal4
CA Canada—4447 rec.—1Nimal21
SE Sweden—41△2 rec.1 in 249K41—2
MY Malaysia—3935 rec.——Nimal8
PL Poland—10—1 in 3.8M10——
NZ New Zealand—86 rec.——Nimal5
CH Switzerland—77 rec.—15Nimal5
UA Ukraine—77 rec.——Nimal1

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi5.4K37%
  • 3.7K26%
  • Sinhala1.9K13%
  • English1.5K10%
  • Arabic2882%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi5,35537%
3,72326%
Sinhala1,85413%
English1,47110%
Arabic2882%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nimal is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name3.9K records spelled Nimal2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Sri Lanka

    Also written Nimål

  • Arabic given name419 records spelled Nimal2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait

    Also written Ñïmăl

  • Indonesian given name348 records spelled Nimal3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ni'Mal

  • Bangla given name203 records spelled Nimal10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Nimul, Nimol, নিমল, ନିମାଲ, নিমূল

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nimal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In nv, second-person singular imperfective of yimal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In quc, largeness

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05101520194019601980200020 · 1983

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Nimal in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1923–2015
Yearrecords
19231
19251
19271
19291
19311
19352
19371
19383
19392
19402
19411
19421
19433
19443
19451
19462
19474
19483
19494
19506
19515
19524
19536
19546
195512
19569
19577
19588
19596
196010
19617
196214
196310
196412
196513
19669
196713
19689
196916
197010
197110
197214
197312
197414
197511
197617
19778
19788
197913
198012
198113
198215
198320
198420
198515
198615
198717
198810
198914
199016
199113
199218
199318
19949
199511
19966
19976
19982
20083
20091
20102
20111
20123
20132
20144
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 76 years between 1923–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Nimal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202093#52,462
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200865#21,655
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—61#36,490
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199144—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196144—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—41#15,675
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—38#53,076
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194138—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193130—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195127—

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 177 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nimal?
We estimate roughly 148 people bear Nimal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Nimal have the most bearers?
Nimal is most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is most often spelled nimal.
How common is Nimal compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Nimal is the 116th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
Is Nimal a male or female name?
Nimal is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nimal” — the 116th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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