Khush
Khush was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,048 among boys’ names; 147 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khush by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khush?
#13,048 among boys’ names, 2025
Khush fell from #11,464 in 2015 to #13,048 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.1 to 2.9 per million.
12 babies in 2005, the peak
Khush peaked in 2005, when 12 boys were given it, #6,438 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,048 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,603 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,416 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,505 | 3.4 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,348 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,512 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,464 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,870 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,844 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,869 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #13,426 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,273 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,026 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,997 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,369 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,207 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,438 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,486 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,669 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khush a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khush has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khush: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khush, and how old are they?
An estimated 145 Americans named Khush and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 225 people named Khush (41 women and girls, 184 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 124 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Khush?
Khush is a less common spelling of Kush: SSA has recorded 147 Khush and 1,221 Kush since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,368 babies since 1880, Khush is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 23 babies (22%), again the second 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 Khush
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 Khush and names like it
- Compare Khush and KushBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKhush peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Khush.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Khush alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.