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How popular is the name Minal?
Births per year, rank history and how many Minals are alive today.
Minal (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 5927th in 2025 and given to 3 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2024, when 18 babies were given the name, the 1672nd most popular that year. It has declined since 2024; the 2025 figure is roughly 17% of its peak. Minal is one spelling of a name also recorded as Manel; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Minal you are most likely to meet is around 3 years old - or else around 16: the name has two living generations. Half of all Minals born in England and Wales are between 6 and 19, and there are at least 330 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Minal - on average, only one in every 955 such rooms contains a Minal.
How many babies are named Minal each year?
Includes all spellings: Minal, Manel. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Minal spelling rank?
Where does the Manel spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Minal most popular?
Minal peaked in 2024, when 21 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Minal?
At least 330 people named Minal in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Minal?
Most living Minals are between 6 and 19; the most common age is about 3. There is a second cluster around 16.
Is Minal becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2024 peak.