Nirmal
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Nirmal is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Nirmal is also written নির্মল in Bengali.
- INIndia≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 23K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nirmal in other scripts: Bengali
(measured from records)Locally spelled Nirmol in KW Kuwait, BH Bahrain, AE United Arab Emirates.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nirmal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #370 | ≈370,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 2K | Nirmal | 231 |
| BD Bangladesh | #611 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Nirmal | 33 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Nirmal | 24 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Nirmal | 25 |
| US United States | — | 2,122 | 1 in 157K | 1.5K | Nirmal | 246 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Nirmol | 2 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Nirmol | 4 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Nirmol | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nirmal Vermab. 1929INIndian writer (1929–2005)
- Nirmal Kaurb. 1938INIndian volleyball player (1938-2021)
- Nirmal Pandeyb. 1962INfilm actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Nirmal a male or female name?
- Nirmal is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Finland (DVV). We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Nirmal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 365 thousand people named Nirmal in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nirmal. After it come Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nirmal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,122 people named Nirmal in 2020, about 1 in 157 thousand residents.
- How common is Nirmal compared with other names?
- In India, Nirmal is the 370th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nirmalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Nirmal” — ranked 3195th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.