Payal peaked in the US in 1981 at #2,657, and is too rare now to appear in the latest official lists.
Payal as a girl’s name
US
England & Wales
Canada
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
England & Wales
Canada
2015
#16,419 (5)
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2013
#16,547 (5)
#5,742 (3)
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2012
#16,869 (5)
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2009
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#4,564 (4)
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2008
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#5,545 (3)
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2007
#15,491 (6)
#2,895 (7)
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2006
#13,606 (7)
#2,781 (7)
#2,972 (5)
2005
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#2,970 (6)
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2004
#11,624 (8)
#3,197 (5)
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2003
#7,580 (14)
#2,727 (6)
#2,693 (5)
2002
#6,698 (16)
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#2,283 (6)
2001
#7,317 (14)
#2,023 (8)
#1,847 (8)
2000
#5,491 (20)
#1,831 (9)
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1999
#5,661 (18)
#2,189 (7)
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1998
#4,796 (22)
#1,979 (8)
#1,827 (8)
The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1981 at #2,657.
First recorded in the US in 1975.
Spellings
Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.