Vishal
Just over 150 men in Poland carry it, and the record shows no boy given it this century. Most Poles have never met one. At root the name means broad, or spacious.
Vishal Pronunciation
What Vishal means
Where Vishal comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vishal comes from Sanskrit, where विशाल (viśāla) means large, vast, spacious. On a Polish baby-name site it sits under an origin marked simply as other, away from the Slavic and Latin roots that fill most of these pages. Its short meaning holds to the source: broad, spacious. In Polish that becomes rozległy, and wielki when the sense widens toward great.
The word was an adjective before it became a name. In Sanskrit it described wide plains and open halls, anything generous in size. Indian families later gave it to sons, and it stays common across India today.
A Vishal on a Kraków class register would sit alone among the Kacpers and Szymons. The name grew no Polish diminutive, no Kasia-style short form to shrink it. It keeps its two syllables on the urząd form, start to finish.
The meaning stays plain. Rozległy, and wielki.
How many people are named Vishal
1 in 135963 men in Poland is named Vishal. 157 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2578 among male names.
Vishal as a middle name
Vishal is a first name for 157 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2360th, between Utku (16) and Wali (16).
-
#2358 Trọng16
-
#2359 Utku16
-
#2360 Vishal16
-
#2361 Wali16
-
#2362 Witek16