Khali
Khali is given to both girls and boys: 39 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,804 among girls’ names and #6,005 among boys’, #5,379 among all names counting both); 2,087 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Khali and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khali by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khali?
#3,804 among girls’ names, 2025
Khali fell from #2,034 in 2015 to #3,804 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 54.3 to 24.3 per million.
139 babies in 2017, the peak
Khali peaked in 2017, when 139 babies were given it (102 girls, #1,959 among girls’ names). The 54 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,804 | 15 | #6,005 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,725 | 10 | #8,052 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,745 | 20 | #4,979 |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,131 | 21 | #4,783 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,335 | 28 | #3,874 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,937 | 25 | #4,084 |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,082 | 32 | #3,526 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,780 | 21 | #4,675 |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,959 | 37 | #3,164 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,103 | 14 | #6,194 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 97 | #2,034 | 27 | #3,939 |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,084 | 26 | #3,962 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,204 | 24 | #4,129 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,083 | 15 | #5,860 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,305 | 26 | #3,952 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,513 | 18 | #5,150 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,208 | 32 | #3,440 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,509 | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,998 | 33 | #3,348 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,683 | 18 | #4,963 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,684 | 22 | #4,130 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,099 | 17 | #4,902 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,067 | 21 | #4,052 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,169 | 11 | #6,328 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,461 | 28 | #3,186 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,539 | 21 | #3,855 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,157 | 11 | #5,866 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,361 | 10 | #6,086 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,459 | 14 | #4,575 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,662 | 19 | #3,613 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,413 | 19 | #3,494 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,155 | 14 | #4,416 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,615 | 8 | #6,562 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,979 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,267 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,789 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,426 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,095 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,809 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,192 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,451 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Khali a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,087 Americans recorded as Khali, 66% are girls and 34% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Khali: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khali, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,087 Americans ever recorded as Khali. The median Khali alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,310 people named Khali (831 women and girls, 479 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,340 |
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 Khali born?
The states with the most babies named Khali are Georgia, California and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 6 | #1,466 | 0.8× |
| California | 5 | #3,331 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,572 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Khali with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Khali?
Khali is a less common spelling of Callie: SSA has recorded 2,087 Khali and 70,827 Callie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 156,190 babies since 1880, Khali is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 3,651 babies (1.5%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Khali
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 Khali and names like it
- Compare Khali and CallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKhali peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khali since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Khali.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khali alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.