Girls' name · since 2018
Khalesi
Khalesi has 30 recorded births since 2018 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2018 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #40,960 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,573 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
30 babies have been named Khalesi since 2018, making it today's #14573 girls' name.
Khalesi has 30 recorded births among girls since 2018, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14573 as of the latest data, more common than 16% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2025.
- #40,960 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,573 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 30 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Khalesi ranks #40,960 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,573 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 30 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #40,960 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,573 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Khalesi's 30 recorded births place it above 43.1% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Khalesi compares
30 11th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Khalesi's all-time total is 92% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Khalesi | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 30 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Khalesi's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Khalesi's SSA record in two at 2021 and the more recent half accounts for 37% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 63%, consistent with a name more common in the past than in recent years. Its calmest year was 2021, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2018 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Khalesi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2025
- Peak year (2018)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Khalesi by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (20 births, 67% of the file).
2020s was Khalesi's strongest decade.
20 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Khalesi births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
10 births
- 2020s
2020s
20 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 20 births (67% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Khalesi: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2018)
Similar record span (~7 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2018–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Khalesi draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.