Khalil
Khalil was given to 826 boys in 2025, #384 among boys’ names; 25,203 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,800 Americans named Khalil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khalil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Khalil mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Khalil is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “friend” (خَلِيل).
Borrowed from Arabic خَلِيل (ḵalīl, “friend”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Khalil?
#384 among boys’ names, 2025
Khalil rose from #479 in 2015 to #384 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.33 to 0.48 per 1,000.
1,242 babies in 2020, the peak
Khalil peaked in 2020, when 1,242 babies were given it (1,233 boys, #274 among boys’ names). The 826 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 826 | #384 | 0.48 |
| 2024 | 831 | #392 | 0.48 |
| 2023 | 982 | #340 | 0.57 |
| 2022 | 1,091 | #308 | 0.62 |
| 2021 | 1,148 | #294 | 0.66 |
| 2020 | 1,233 | #274 | 0.71 |
| 2019 | 1,127 | #302 | 0.63 |
| 2018 | 803 | #395 | 0.44 |
| 2017 | 733 | #424 | 0.40 |
| 2016 | 696 | #446 | 0.37 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 624 | #479 | 0.33 |
| 2014 | 625 | #465 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 602 | #465 | 0.32 |
| 2012 | 616 | #446 | 0.32 |
| 2011 | 580 | #462 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 516 | #501 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 553 | #496 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 557 | #492 | 0.27 |
| 2007 | 556 | #483 | 0.27 |
| 2006 | 600 | #450 | 0.29 |
| 2005 | 566 | #452 | 0.28 |
| 2004 | 620 | #418 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 546 | #461 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 583 | #424 | 0.30 |
| 2001 | 626 | #400 | 0.32 |
| 2000 | 619 | #404 | 0.32 |
| 1999 | 700 | #372 | 0.36 |
| 1998 | 611 | #400 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 577 | #403 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 714 | #348 | 0.38 |
| 1995 | 1,118 | #251 | 0.59 |
| 1994 | 372 | #527 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 287 | #615 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 249 | #658 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 154 | #832 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 144 | #848 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 113 | #957 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 84 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 82 | #1,025 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,027 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 76 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,044 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 74 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,095 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,521 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,944 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 25 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,984 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,180 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,255 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,120 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,457 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,504 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,282 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khalil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khalil has been given almost only to boys: 182 girls in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Khalil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khalil, and how old are they?
24,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 25,203 Americans ever recorded as Khalil. The median Khalil alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 17,176 people named Khalil (179 women and girls, 16,997 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,096 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 24 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,640 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,300 |
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 Khalil born?
The states with the most babies named Khalil are Texas, Florida and California, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 95 | #384 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 65 | #298 | 1.1× |
| California | 62 | #502 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 45 | #276 | 1.9× |
| New York | 37 | #458 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 36 | #302 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 35 | #285 | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 35 | #147 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 33 | #344 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 30 | #378 | 1.6× |
Where Khalil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khalil is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1957 it was given 4.1 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 Khalil 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,603 babies since 1880, Khalil is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 826 of their 1,123 babies (74%), 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 Khalil
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 Khalil and names like it
- Compare Khalil and KalelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKhalil peaked in 2020.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khalil since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Khalil: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Khalil.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khalil alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.