Khalilah
#4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 205 births
- Debut · girls
- 17 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,699since 1975
Khalilah over time
Rank among girls' names. Khalilah has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,987 | 26 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 |
| 1993 | #3,877 | 27 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 |
| 1987 | #3,743 | 23 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 |
| 1985 | #2,398 | 41 |
| 1984 | #3,233 | 26 |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 |
| 1982 | #2,082 | 49 |
| 1981 | #1,700 | 67 |
| 1980 | #1,310 | 97 |
| 1979 | #1,080 | 127 |
| 1978 | #969 | 143 |
| 1977 | #870 | 166 |
| 1976 | #714 | 205 |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Khalilah! It came in at #3,774, and was given to 17 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2011, when fewer than 16 girls a year got the name.
Where Khalilah is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#353 · 1 in 2,097
- New Jersey#403 · 1 in 2,591
- Mississippi#505 · 1 in 3,067
- Virginia#541 · 1 in 4,640
- Illinois#677 · 1 in 5,909
Best ever in a state: #252 in District of Columbia, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #353 | 6 | 1 in 2,097 |
| New Jersey | #403 | 14 | 1 in 2,591 |
| Mississippi | #505 | 5 | 1 in 3,067 |
| Virginia | #541 | 6 | 1 in 4,640 |
| Illinois | #677 | 12 | 1 in 5,909 |
| Florida | #700 | 8 | 1 in 5,503 |
| Pennsylvania | #737 | 8 | 1 in 8,250 |
| Ohio | #748 | 8 | 1 in 8,619 |
| New York | #764 | 15 | 1 in 6,555 |
| Georgia | #766 | 5 | 1 in 6,450 |
| California | #1,161 | 13 | 1 in 11,795 |
| Texas | #1,202 | 8 | 1 in 12,924 |
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See more about Khalilah
- 161 spots since 2024 (#5,148 → #4,987)
- 1,936 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #4,987)
- 3,021 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #4,987)
- Biggest jump: 3,060 spots in 1976 (#3,774 → #714)
- Biggest drop: 156 spots in 1977 (#714 → #870)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1976 at #714 (205 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1976–1978
- Highest: 1 in 7,147 girls born in 1976 were named Khalilah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.7% of all girls named Khalilah (658) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 658 | #714 (1976) | #1,481 |
| 1980s | 399 | #1,310 (1980) | #3,176 |
| 1990s | 207 | #3,877 (1993) | #4,930 |
| 2000s | 173 | #4,791 (2000) | #7,115 |
| 2010s | 138 | #6,698 (2019) | #8,219 |
| 2020s | 124 | #4,987 (2025) | #5,998 |
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.
Khalilah in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 10,712 of them was named Khalilah, which outranked 91.6% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #964Raina144
- #964Suzette144
- #964Trudy144
- #969Khalilah143
- #969Charla143
- #969Danna143
- #969Kindra143
- #976Latarsha142
- #976Layla142
- #976Malia142
Tied with 6 names at #969; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.