Entry № 5133 · Hindi origin

Kajol Kajol — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAH-jol /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hindi
Meaning
"Kohl eyeliner (Kajol Devgan, Bollywood superstar)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Hindi)

A name that means "kohl eyeliner (kajol devgan, bollywood superstar)".

Kajol (काजल) is from the Hindi-Sanskrit kajal — the traditional black kohl eye-cosmetic used across South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa for over 7,000 years; the word is also used poetically for darkness, eyes, and beauty. My Name Is Khan (2010) — premiered out-of-competition at the Berlin International Film Festival; among the first Bollywood films to be widely distributed in the United States. Founded the Kajol Foundation supporting underprivileged children. Kajal as a cosmetic is the namesake of dozens of Indian products and a top-1000 baby name in modern India.

Kohl. Kajol's DDLJ has played continuously at Mumbai's Maratha Mandir for 30+ years (Guinness record).

The name in its native script.

काजल
Transliteration
Kājal
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑː.dʒəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kajol stands.

Kajol does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kajols before her.

Real people
Kajol Devgan
Indian Bollywood superstar.
born 1974
In fiction
Kajol
Various Bollywood films.

Names connected to Kajol.

The number behind Kajol.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kajol reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.