Halil
Halil was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 94 Americans have been recorded with it between 1999 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Halil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Halil mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Halil is “a male given name from Arabic” Its etymology gives the sense “friend” (خَلِيل).
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish خلیل (Halîl), from Arabic خَلِيل (ḵalīl, “friend”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Halil?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,734, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2017, the peak
Halil peaked in 2017, when 11 boys were given it, #7,264 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #12,734 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,823 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,264 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,887 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,915 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,729 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,796 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,079 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,993 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,356 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #11,480 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,707 | 2.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,303 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,505 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,490 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Halil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Halil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Halil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Halil, and how old are they?
An estimated 93 Americans named Halil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 687 people named Halil (3 women and girls, 684 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 89 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 17,767 babies since 1880, Halil is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 45 babies recorded by SSA was a Halil (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Halil
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Halil and names like it
- Compare Halil and HalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHalil peaked in 2017.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Halil: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Halil.
- Names starting with HMost given first.