Khan

Peak · boys
1969 · 7 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
442
since 1966

Khan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Khan has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,595, 1969boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#7,19411
2024#6,83212
2023#4,61022
2022#4,70121
2021#4,93619
2020#5,98014
2019#4,48022
2018#5,77015
2017#5,78815
2016#5,78915
2015#7,49110
2014#7,56210
2013#7,02611
2012#5,48216
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2010#5,74115
2009#8,9858
2008#6,76312
2007#9,7887
2006#9,5857
2005#7,09610
2004#8,1438
2003#9,5816
2002#7,6438
2001#9,2436
2000#5,92011
1999#6,5309
1998#6,3149
1997#7,2817
1996#9,0155
1995#6,9927
1994#5,8689
1993#6,8167
1992#6,6707
1991#5,9428
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1988#5,7517
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1986#6,7215
1985#6,5235
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1975#4,7976
1974#4,6346
1973#5,1015
1972#4,4416
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First appearance
1966

The first year at least five boys were named Khan! It came in at #3,948, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1966–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Khan is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Khan in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Khan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 362 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #7,194)
  • 1,214 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #7,194)
  • 297 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1966
  • Peaked 1969 at #3,595 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1970, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 77,753
  • Highest: 1 in 77,753 boys born in 2023 were named Khan (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,595 in 1969, was only 1 in 255,453 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 29.2% of all boys named Khan (129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s12#3,595 (1969)#3,772
1970s29#4,441 (1972)#4,866
1980s22#5,751 (1988)#6,314
1990s68#5,868 (1994)#6,825
2000s83#5,920 (2000)#8,275
2010s129#4,480 (2019)#6,125
2020s99#4,610 (2023)#5,709

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.

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