Meaning not yet researched.
Kahlil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #630 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #630 in 1995; #2,623 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kahlil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,623 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #630.
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Kahlil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #630 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 268 (1995).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Kahlil, making it the 2,623rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 727 places from #1,896 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 84 boys named Kahlil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #630, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 268. For comparison, it was #2,176 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kahlil in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 12 babies. In all, 4,288 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,180 babies named Kahlil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 811 US boys were named Kahlil; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kahlil ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,630 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Khalil (25,203 babies since 1880), Kalel (4,415 babies since 1880) and Kalil (1,325 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cahlil and Kahlill are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cahlil (245), Kahlill (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kahlil in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,630 | #1,967 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 50 | #2,623 |
| 2024 | — | — | 84 | #1,896 |
| 2023 | — | — | 71 | #2,085 |
| 2022 | — | — | 87 | #1,845 |
| 2021 | — | — | 84 | #1,846 |
| 2020 | — | — | 117 | #1,467 |
| 2019 | — | — | 89 | #1,757 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,815 | 63 | #2,197 |
| 2017 | — | — | 85 | #1,795 |
| 2016 | — | — | 81 | #1,853 |
| 2015 | — | — | 63 | #2,176 |
| 2014 | — | — | 91 | #1,685 |
| 2013 | — | — | 82 | #1,775 |
| 2012 | — | — | 94 | #1,646 |
| 2011 | — | — | 98 | #1,584 |
| 2010 | — | — | 110 | #1,488 |
| 2009 | — | — | 104 | #1,568 |
| 2008 | — | — | 121 | #1,404 |
| 2007 | — | — | 99 | #1,588 |
| 2006 | — | — | 123 | #1,335 |
| 2005 | — | — | 105 | #1,410 |
| 2004 | — | — | 109 | #1,347 |
| 2003 | — | — | 115 | #1,260 |
| 2002 | — | — | 110 | #1,239 |
| 2001 | — | — | 128 | #1,112 |
| 2000 | — | — | 120 | #1,158 |
| 1999 | — | — | 130 | #1,055 |
| 1998 | — | — | 125 | #1,062 |
| 1997 | — | — | 145 | #934 |
| 1996 | — | — | 209 | #735 |
| 1995 | — | — | 268 | #630 |
| 1994 | — | — | 127 | #984 |
| 1993 | — | — | 65 | #1,451 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,635 |
| 1991 | — | — | 34 | #2,171 |
| 1990 | — | — | 50 | #1,645 |
| 1989 | — | — | 38 | #1,940 |
| 1988 | — | — | 21 | #2,728 |
| 1987 | — | — | 28 | #2,153 |
| 1986 | — | — | 32 | #1,897 |
| 1985 | — | — | 23 | #2,329 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,128 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,532 |
| 1982 | — | — | 34 | #1,717 |
| 1981 | — | — | 33 | #1,745 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,888 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,449 |
| 1978 | — | — | 35 | #1,608 |
| 1977 | — | — | 41 | #1,440 |
| 1976 | — | — | 33 | #1,630 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,607 |
| 1974 | — | — | 30 | #1,634 |
| 1973 | — | — | 33 | #1,491 |
| 1972 | — | — | 22 | #1,943 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,240 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,251 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,961 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,507 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,414 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).