What does the name Akal mean?

Akal means "a wrong or bad time". It is a unisex name of Sikh origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Akal?

अकाल (akāla): a wrong or bad time, per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Akal

Akal means a wrong or bad time.

Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Gender	unisex
Origin	Sikh
Language	Punjabi
Starts with	A

Classical Sanskrit origin

अकाल (akāla): a wrong or bad time.

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “a wrong or bad time”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Ahaan — Meanings families give: Dawn, first ray of light; Dawn, the beginning of time
Pratham — n. foremost, first (in time or in a series or in rank)
Kiyana — Ancient, time, God
Sandhya — Meanings families give: Dusk, twilight time; Twilight, dusk, meeting point; Twilight, dusk, evening prayer
Sahaj — n. born or produced together or at the same time as (gen.)
Ritu — Season; the rhythm of time

More unisex names of Sikh origin

Hardeep — Lamp of God, God's light
Harsimran — Remembering God, in meditation of the Lord
Harjot — God's light, divine flame
Gurmeet — Friend of the Guru, Guru's companion
Satnam — True name, name of the true Lord
Gurjot — Light of the Guru, Guru's illumination

Where this comes from

Akal's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.