What does the name Akal mean?

Akal means "Timeless, beyond time and deathless". 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 Timeless, beyond time and deathless.

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 “Timeless, beyond time and deathless”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Amaritha — Immortal, deathless, eternal
Akaldeep — Lamp of the timeless one, God's light
Akaljot — Timeless light, eternal flame
Sanatan — Eternal, ancient, timeless
Amulya — Priceless, invaluable, beyond worth
Paresh — Supreme soul; Lord beyond

More unisex names of Sikh origin

Gurpreet — Love of the Guru
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

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.