Kayal

Meaning

a slender freshwater fish; in classical Tamil poetry a beloved's eyes are praised as kayal-like, the same compliment behind Meenakshi; pure Tamil and fashionably short

Popularity, 1890–2024

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kayal has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Kayal truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Kayal fits with your family’s names and surname.

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