Khaled
Khaled was given to 91 boys in 2025, #1,773 among boys’ names; 2,777 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,720 Americans named Khaled and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khaled by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Khaled mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Khaled is “a male given name.”
Transliteration of Arabic خَالِد (ḵālid).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Khaled?
#1,773 among boys’ names, 2025
Khaled fell from #1,621 in 2015 to #1,773 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 51.7 to 53.3 per million.
114 babies in 2024, the peak
Khaled peaked in 2024, when 114 boys were given it, #1,542 among boys’ names. The 91 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #1,773 | 53.3 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,542 | 66.2 |
| 2023 | 89 | #1,813 | 52.0 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,688 | 58.4 |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,593 | 61.7 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,626 | 57.4 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,587 | 58.5 |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,587 | 57.8 |
| 2017 | 96 | #1,655 | 51.9 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,507 | 59.5 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 99 | #1,621 | 51.7 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,584 | 52.1 |
| 2013 | 94 | #1,628 | 49.7 |
| 2012 | 86 | #1,749 | 45.3 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,071 | 34.2 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,107 | 33.4 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,426 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 55 | #2,361 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,584 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,606 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,635 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,005 | 30.2 |
| 2003 | 44 | #2,407 | 22.3 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,107 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,167 | 24.7 |
| 2000 | 53 | #1,951 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 50 | #1,948 | 26.0 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,026 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 64 | #1,588 | 33.9 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,753 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,193 | 19.4 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,234 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,915 | 21.9 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,063 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,504 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,236 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 35 | #2,043 | 17.5 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,965 | 17.2 |
| 1987 | 25 | #2,304 | 13.4 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,648 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,393 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,330 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,119 | 13.9 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,382 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,320 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,517 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,089 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,149 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,489 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,612 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,567 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,406 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,299 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,381 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,898 | 6.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,726 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khaled a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khaled has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khaled: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khaled, and how old are they?
2,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,777 Americans ever recorded as Khaled. The median Khaled alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 6,151 people named Khaled (20 women and girls, 6,131 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,161 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 460 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 862 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Khaled born?
The states with the most babies named Khaled are Michigan, California and Texas, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 13 | #621 | 1.6× |
| California | 12 | #1,478 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,838 | 0.7× |
| New York | 8 | #1,360 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,416 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,075 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,395 | 1.1× |
Where Khaled is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khaled is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1969 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Khaled with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,061 babies since 1880, Khaled is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 91 of their 372 babies (24%), again the second most given.
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 Khaled
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 Khaled and names like it
- Compare Khaled and KhalidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKhaled peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khaled since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Khaled.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khaled alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.