Khadir
Khadir was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,600 among boys’ names; 221 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khadir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khadir?
#8,600 among boys’ names, 2025
Khadir rose from #9,186 in 2015 to #8,600 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 5.3 per million.
15 babies in 2000, the peak
Khadir peaked in 2000, when 15 boys were given it, #4,926 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,600 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,009 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,052 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,296 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,479 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,342 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,253 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,332 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,502 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,186 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #10,234 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,539 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,619 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,265 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,483 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,882 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,383 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,297 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,566 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,542 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,926 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,532 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,234 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,751 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,503 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,597 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,937 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khadir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khadir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khadir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khadir, and how old are they?
An estimated 218 Americans named Khadir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 175 people named Khadir (2 women and girls, 173 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Khadir
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.