Khaleef
Khaleef was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,033 among boys’ names; 101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khaleef by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khaleef?
#13,033 among boys’ names, 2025
Khaleef entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,033 in 2025.
9 babies in 1996, the peak
Khaleef peaked in 1996, when 9 boys were given it, #6,275 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,033 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,592 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,495 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,539 | 3.1 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,385 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,105 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,903 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,104 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,275 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,377 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #9,599 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,414 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,851 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,613 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,594 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,298 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,332 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khaleef a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khaleef has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khaleef: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khaleef, and how old are they?
An estimated 98 Americans named Khaleef 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 116 people named Khaleef (2 women and girls, 114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 82 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above 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
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 Khaleef
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Argenis | 1,008 |
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.