Khalel
Khalel was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,384 among boys’ names; 287 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khalel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khalel?
#11,384 among boys’ names, 2025
Khalel fell from #7,319 in 2015 to #11,384 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 3.5 per million.
18 babies in 2018, the peak
Khalel peaked in 2018, when 18 boys were given it, #5,212 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,384 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,051 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,380 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,754 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,299 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,272 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,693 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,212 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,914 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,437 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,319 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,166 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,237 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,839 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,456 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,260 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,286 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,513 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,882 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,675 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,415 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,366 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,007 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,959 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,972 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,700 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,839 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,752 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khalel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khalel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khalel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khalel, and how old are they?
An estimated 284 Americans named Khalel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 227 people named Khalel (6 women and girls, 221 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 230 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below 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).
How common is the spelling Khalel?
Khalel is a less common spelling of Kalel: SSA has recorded 287 Khalel and 4,415 Kalel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,407 babies since 1880, Khalel is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,372 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Khalel
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 Khalel and names like it
- Compare Khalel and KalelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKhalel peaked in 2018.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khalel since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Khalel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khalel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.