Khalessi
Khalessi was given to 55 girls in 2025, #3,011 among girls’ names; 406 Americans have been recorded with it since 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khalessi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Khalessi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Khalessi is “a female given name from fiction or popular culture, variant of Khaleesi”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Khalessi?
#3,011 among girls’ names, 2025
Khalessi rose from #5,384 in 2015 to #3,011 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 34.2 per million.
55 babies in 2025, the peak
Khalessi peaked in 2025, when 55 girls were given it, #3,011 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 49 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,011 | 34.2 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,259 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,606 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,415 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,583 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,820 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,300 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,691 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,870 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,890 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,384 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,157 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,358 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,772 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Khalessi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khalessi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khalessi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khalessi, and how old are they?
An estimated 404 Americans named Khalessi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,441 babies since 1880, Khalessi is the second most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 505 babies (11%), 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 Khalessi
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 Khalessi and names like it
- Compare Khalessi and KhaleesiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKhalessi peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khalessi since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Khalessi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khalessi alive today were born 2013-2025.
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