Khalilah

Where Khalilah comes from

Khalilah hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  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, 17 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1976
    Peak, #714
    205 babies named Khalilah — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,310.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.