Khalid
Khalid was given to 250 boys in 2025, #940 among boys’ names; 8,197 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,980 Americans named Khalid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 9 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khalid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Khalid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Khalid is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “immortal; glorious; eternal” (خَالِد).
From Arabic خَالِد (ḵālid, “immortal; glorious; eternal”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Khalid?
#940 among boys’ names, 2025
Khalid rose from #1,027 in 2015 to #940 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.15 per 1,000.
273 babies in 2019, the peak
Khalid peaked in 2019, when 273 boys were given it, #827 among boys’ names. The 250 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 250 | #940 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 246 | #937 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 218 | #1,011 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 235 | #963 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 259 | #891 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 251 | #898 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 273 | #827 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 264 | #845 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 253 | #863 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 238 | #907 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 198 | #1,027 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 220 | #963 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 172 | #1,086 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 174 | #1,079 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 157 | #1,150 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 143 | #1,237 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 139 | #1,268 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,290 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 152 | #1,166 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,142 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 143 | #1,137 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 138 | #1,141 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 172 | #951 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 222 | #779 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 246 | #716 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 212 | #781 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 172 | #879 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 188 | #808 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 150 | #910 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 173 | #827 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 213 | #734 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 214 | #715 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,022 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 114 | #1,024 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 110 | #1,029 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 96 | #1,088 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,174 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 84 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 52 | #1,412 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,107 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,150 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,035 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 96 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 107 | #829 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 77 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,025 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,161 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,157 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 31 | #1,549 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 36 | #1,428 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,767 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,016 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 23 | #1,665 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,095 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,729 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,840 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khalid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khalid has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khalid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khalid, and how old are they?
7,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 8,197 Americans ever recorded as Khalid. The median Khalid alive today is 20 years old; half are between 9 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 11,363 people named Khalid (57 women and girls, 11,306 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,649 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 675 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,590 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,060 |
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 Khalid born?
The states with the most babies named Khalid are Illinois, New York and Texas, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 27 | #411 | 1.0× |
| New York | 25 | #610 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,085 | 0.6× |
| California | 18 | #1,134 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 15 | #380 | 3.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #645 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 13 | #693 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #573 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,164 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 10 | #662 | 0.8× |
Where Khalid is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khalid is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1962 it was given 3.4 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 Khalid 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 12,004 babies since 1880, Khalid is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 250 of their 367 babies (68%), again the 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 Khalid
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 Khalid and names like it
- Compare Khalid and KhaledBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKhalid peaked in 2019.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khalid since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Khalid: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Khalid.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khalid alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.