Khalil
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462 · #384 for boys in 2025, 826 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 1,118 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 25,021since 1957
Khalil over time
Rank among boys' names. Khalil has never cracked the top 200 here.
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 | — | #384 | 826 | |
| 2024 | — | #392 | 831 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #340 | 982 |
| 2022 | — | #308 | 1,091 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #294 | 1,148 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #274 | 1,233 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | #302 | 1,127 |
| 2018 | — | #395 | 803 | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #424 | 733 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #444 | 696 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #479 | 624 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #465 | 625 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #465 | 602 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #446 | 616 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #462 | 580 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #501 | 516 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #496 | 553 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #492 | 557 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #481 | 556 |
| 2006 | — | #449 | 600 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #452 | 566 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #418 | 620 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #461 | 546 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #424 | 583 |
| 2001 | — | #400 | 626 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #404 | 619 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #372 | 700 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #400 | 611 |
| 1997 | — | #403 | 577 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #348 | 714 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #251 | 1,118 |
| 1994 | — | #527 | 372 | |
| 1993 | — | #615 | 287 | |
| 1992 | — | #658 | 249 | |
| 1991 | — | #833 | 154 | |
| 1990 | — | #851 | 144 | |
| 1989 | — | #960 | 113 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,083 | 84 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,088 | 78 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,023 | 82 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,020 | 80 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,022 | 76 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,067 | 69 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,039 | 76 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,101 | 68 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,047 | 74 | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #1,005 | 78 |
| 1978 | — | #1,087 | 64 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,177 | 56 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,320 | 45 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,505 | 35 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,129 | 20 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,771 | 25 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,279 | 17 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,282 | 7 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Khalil! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Khalil is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#116 · 1 in 373
- South Carolina#212 · 1 in 883
- Maryland#237 · 1 in 1,102
- Virginia#241 · 1 in 1,095
- Georgia#246 · 1 in 1,034
Best ever in a state: #36 in District of Columbia, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #116 | 12 | 1 in 373 |
| South Carolina | #212 | 24 | 1 in 883 |
| Maryland | #237 | 25 | 1 in 1,102 |
| Virginia | #241 | 38 | 1 in 1,095 |
| Georgia | #246 | 52 | 1 in 1,034 |
| North Carolina | #287 | 39 | 1 in 1,333 |
| Michigan | #291 | 34 | 1 in 1,404 |
| Mississippi | #302 | 10 | 1 in 1,344 |
| Louisiana | #305 | 19 | 1 in 1,293 |
| Illinois | #315 | 40 | 1 in 1,604 |
| Tennessee | #368 | 21 | 1 in 1,724 |
| Florida | #386 | 46 | 1 in 2,129 |
| Oklahoma | #388 | 12 | 1 in 1,689 |
| Nevada | #411 | 7 | 1 in 1,921 |
| Missouri | #414 | 15 | 1 in 2,107 |
| Wisconsin | #432 | 12 | 1 in 2,244 |
| Kentucky | #446 | 9 | 1 in 2,423 |
| Pennsylvania | #457 | 21 | 1 in 2,820 |
| Indiana | #466 | 14 | 1 in 2,541 |
| Minnesota | #472 | 11 | 1 in 2,545 |
| New York | #479 | 34 | 1 in 2,941 |
| California | #489 | 70 | 1 in 3,196 |
| Washington | #492 | 14 | 1 in 2,646 |
| Alabama | #529 | 8 | 1 in 2,888 |
| New Jersey | #538 | 12 | 1 in 3,460 |
| Ohio | #587 | 15 | 1 in 3,955 |
| Texas | #634 | 42 | 1 in 4,410 |
| Arizona | #720 | 7 | 1 in 5,149 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Khalil
- 8 spots since 2024 (#392 → #384)
- 110 spots since 2020 (#274 → #384)
- 95 spots since 2015 (#479 → #384)
- Biggest jump: 276 spots in 1995 (#527 → #251)
- Biggest drop: 97 spots in 1996 (#251 → #348)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1995 at #251 (1,118 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1989–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,400 boys born in 2020 were named Khalil (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,068 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
- Its best rank, #251 in 1995, was only 1 in 1,703 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.7% of all boys named Khalil (6,922) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 68 | #2,200 (1968) | #3,280 |
| 1970s | 363 | #1,005 (1979) | #1,802 |
| 1980s | 800 | #960 (1989) | #1,045 |
| 1990s | 4,926 | #251 (1995) | #526 |
| 2000s | 5,826 | #400 (2001) | #448 |
| 2010s | 6,922 | #302 (2019) | #438 |
| 2020s | 6,111 | #274 (2020) | #332 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Khalil in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 354,404 of them was named Khalil, which outranked 14.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 2,727 of them was named Khalil, which outranked 96.9% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).