Khalif
Khalif was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,322 among boys’ names; 1,740 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Khalif and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 12 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khalif by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khalif?
#4,322 among boys’ names, 2025
Khalif fell from #3,054 in 2015 to #4,322 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.8 to 14.1 per million.
55 babies in 1992, the peak
Khalif peaked in 1992, when 55 boys were given it, #1,606 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,322 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,744 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,814 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,658 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,329 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,821 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 45 | #2,783 | 25.1 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,865 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,695 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,092 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,054 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,013 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,382 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,587 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,613 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,416 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,845 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,461 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,280 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,947 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,881 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,249 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,406 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,791 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,911 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 51 | #1,998 | 26.0 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,247 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,424 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 38 | #2,241 | 20.2 |
| 1996 | 46 | #1,947 | 24.3 |
| 1995 | 53 | #1,688 | 27.8 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,697 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 52 | #1,683 | 26.5 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,606 | 27.5 |
| 1991 | 52 | #1,618 | 25.7 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,281 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,322 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,928 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,845 | 18.7 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,192 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,100 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,491 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,882 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,754 | 18.2 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,837 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,246 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,280 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,331 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,318 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,017 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,325 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,407 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,823 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,681 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,054 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khalif a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khalif has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khalif: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khalif, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,740 Americans ever recorded as Khalif. The median Khalif alive today is 26 years old; half are between 12 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,218 people named Khalif (5 women and girls, 1,213 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,530 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 130 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 563 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 513 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 480 |
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 Khalif born?
The states with the most babies named Khalif are Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 354 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| New Jersey | 189 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Khalif is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khalif is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1970 it was given 5.0 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 Khalif 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,510 babies since 1880, Khalif is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 29 babies (83%), 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 Khalif
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 Khalif and names like it
- Compare Khalif and KalifBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKhalif peaked in 1992.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khalif since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Khalif.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Khalif alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.