Khalilah

Where Khalilah comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Khalilah.

Khalilah through the years
  1. 1950
    Khalilah Ali born
    second wife of boxer Muhammad Ali
  2. 1967
    Khalilah Sabra born
    American Muslim activist
  3. 1975
    First appearance
    #3,774 among girls with 17 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1976
    Peak, #714
    205 babies named Khalilah, the most in any year.
  5. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,310.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Khalilah Ali · second wife of boxer Muhammad Ali, born 1950
  • Khalilah Sabra · American Muslim activist, born 1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.