Meaning not yet researched.
Khaleesi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 410 in 2025. Its best rank was #549 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #549 in 2018; #690 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Khaleesi in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#690 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #549.
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Khaleesi: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 410 girls in 2025. Peak: #549 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 565 (2018).
In 2025, 410 US girls were named Khaleesi, making it the 690th most common girls’ name of the year, down 23 places from #667 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 434 girls named Khaleesi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #549, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 565. For comparison, it was #822 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Khaleesi in 15 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2011 with 28 babies. In all, 5,537 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,066 babies named Khaleesi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,408 US girls were named Khaleesi; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 565. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,920 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Khaleesi ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #349 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Khalessi, Khaleesia and Khaleesy 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dothraki. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Khalessi (406), Khaleesia (137), Khaleesy (44), Khalesi (30), Khalisi (23), Khaleesie (12), Khalesia (7), Khalessy (5), Khalissi (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 Khaleesi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #349 | #434 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #457 | #965 |
| Arizona | 15 | #461 | #625 |
| Nevada | 6 | #472 | #501 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #478 | — |
| Texas | 65 | #497 | #1,293 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #499 | #908 |
| Indiana | 13 | #528 | #816 |
| Kansas | 6 | #547 | — |
| Florida | 32 | #563 | #601 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #579 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #592 | #499 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #631 | #1,165 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #647 | #837 |
| Utah | 6 | #660 | #789 |
| New York | 25 | #669 | #909 |
| California | 42 | #746 | #772 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #750 | #1,040 |
| Ohio | 12 | #772 | #1,113 |
| Georgia | 13 | #775 | #1,248 |
| Maryland | 6 | #787 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #887 | #893 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #894 | #1,277 |
| Virginia | 8 | #894 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,012 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).