Khali
- #3,780 for girls in 2025, 39 births
- #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Given to girls 66.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 115 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,387since 1980
Khali over time
girlsboys
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,780 | 39 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #2,730 | 63 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #2,123 | 90 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #2,327 | 78 | #3,814 | 28 |
| 2020 | #1,924 | 99 | #4,020 | 25 |
| 2019 | #2,070 | 91 | #3,496 | 32 |
| 2018 | #1,774 | 115 | #4,610 | 21 |
| 2017 | #1,954 | 102 | #3,123 | 37 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #2,025 | 97 | #3,882 | 27 |
| 2014 | #2,081 | 93 | #3,891 | 26 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #4,047 | 37 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #5,434 | 26 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 | #3,313 | 33 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #4,865 | 18 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #3,432 | 19 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | — | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1980
The first year at least five girls were named Khali! It came in at #10,392, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Khali is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · girls
- Georgia#1,358 · 1 in 7,535
- California#3,095 · 1 in 32,345
- Texas#3,285 · 1 in 32,108
Best ever in a state: #483 in Mississippi, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #1,358 | 6 | 1 in 7,535 |
| California | #3,095 | 5 | 1 in 32,345 |
| Texas | #3,285 | 5 | 1 in 32,108 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Khali
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,856 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #3,780)
Rise & fade · girls
38 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2018 at #1,774 (115 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,792
- Highest: 1 in 14,792 girls born in 2018 were named Khali (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 41,212 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 52.8% of all girls named Khali (733) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
- Mostly boys until 2009, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 18 | #7,749 (1986) | #10,168 |
| 1990s | 64 | #8,079 (1995) | #10,856 |
| 2000s | 162 | #5,434 (2008) | #7,859 |
| 2010s | 733 | #1,774 (2018) | #2,984 |
| 2020s | 410 | #1,924 (2020) | #2,763 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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