Khalyl
Khalyl was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,036 among boys’ names; 85 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khalyl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khalyl?
#13,036 among boys’ names, 2025
Khalyl entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,036 in 2025.
10 babies in 2022, the peak
Khalyl peaked in 2022, when 10 boys were given it, #8,054 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,036 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,273 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,054 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,166 | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,335 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,297 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,622 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,261 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,558 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,110 | 2.4 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 8 | #8,087 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,549 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,368 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,504 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khalyl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khalyl has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls 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 Khalyl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khalyl, and how old are they?
An estimated 84 Americans named Khalyl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. 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
Khalyl is a less common spelling of Khalil: SSA has recorded 85 Khalyl and 25,203 Khalil since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Khalyl
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.