Khaleel
Khaleel was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,350 among boys’ names; 1,222 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Khaleel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 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 Khaleel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khaleel?
#3,350 among boys’ names, 2025
Khaleel rose from #4,031 in 2015 to #3,350 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.6 to 20.5 per million.
54 babies in 1999, the peak
Khaleel peaked in 1999, when 54 boys were given it, #1,833 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,350 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 51 | #2,615 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,639 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 44 | #2,893 | 25.2 |
| 2021 | 52 | #2,542 | 29.7 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,568 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,475 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 35 | #3,270 | 19.3 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,550 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,841 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,031 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,165 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,909 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,488 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,659 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,178 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,364 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,634 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,347 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,570 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,929 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,587 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,652 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,859 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,910 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,704 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 54 | #1,833 | 28.1 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,139 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,325 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,031 | 22.7 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,067 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,060 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,928 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,458 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,630 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,852 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,391 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,140 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,299 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,469 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,864 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,804 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,894 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,373 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,138 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khaleel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khaleel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khaleel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khaleel, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,222 Americans ever recorded as Khaleel. The median Khaleel alive today is 18 years old; half are between 7 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,024 people named Khaleel (10 women and girls, 1,014 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 204 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 491 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 492 |
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 Khaleel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,396 | 0.3× |
Where Khaleel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khaleel is most over-represented in New York: since 1975 it was given 1.3 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 Khaleel 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 32,259 babies since 1880, Khaleel is the third most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 1,065 babies (3.3%), again the third 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 Khaleel
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 Khaleel and names like it
- Compare Khaleel and KhalilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKhaleel peaked in 1999.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khaleel since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Khaleel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khaleel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.