Sonal is from the Sanskrit sonal (सोनल — golden, made of gold). S. Princess Sonal — Hindu heritage naming.
and Indian classical dance.
Sonal 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sonal reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.