Entry № 5552 · Bengali origin

Kokil Kokil — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KOH-keel /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Bengali
Meaning
"The cuckoo"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the cuckoo".

Kokil means the cuckoo, the koel — whose sweet song heralds spring in Bengal. It carries music and warmth.

It reads lyrical and warm, a songbird name.

The cuckoo — a Bengali name.

The name in its native script.

Kokil
Transliteration
Kokil
Pronunciation
/ ˈko.kil /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kokil stands.

Kokil 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.

Kokils before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Kokil.

The number behind Kokil.

4

The Builder

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