Meaning not yet researched.
Khali: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,780 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,780 in 2018; #3,805 in 2025. About 72% of babies named Khali in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,805 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,780.
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Khali: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,780 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 115 (2018).
In 2025, 39 US girls were named Khali, making it the 3,805th most common girls’ name of the year, down 80 places from #3,725 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 41 girls named Khali in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,780, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #2,034 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Khali, making it the 6,008th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,049 places from #8,057 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 10 boys named Khali in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,165, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 37. For comparison, it was #3,941 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Khali in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 6 babies. In all, 2,087 US babies have been given the name, 66% of them girls and 34% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 973 babies named Khali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 811 US girls were named Khali; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 115. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,212 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Khalia (3,579 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chaeli, Chalei and Chaly 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: Chaeli (262), Chalei (6), Chaly (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 Khali in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,805 | 15 | #6,008 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,725 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,745 | 20 | #4,984 |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,131 | 21 | #4,787 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,335 | 28 | #3,878 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,937 | 25 | #4,088 |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,082 | 32 | #3,529 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,780 | 21 | #4,679 |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,959 | 37 | #3,165 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,103 | 14 | #6,199 |
| 2015 | 97 | #2,034 | 27 | #3,941 |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,084 | 26 | #3,965 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,205 | 24 | #4,131 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,085 | 15 | #5,866 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,306 | 26 | #3,954 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,516 | 18 | #5,153 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,211 | 32 | #3,442 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,512 | 26 | #3,992 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,002 | 33 | #3,350 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,685 | 18 | #4,967 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,689 | 22 | #4,135 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,103 | 17 | #4,907 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,072 | 21 | #4,057 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,175 | 11 | #6,335 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,468 | 28 | #3,191 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,547 | 21 | #3,861 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,164 | 11 | #5,872 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,368 | 10 | #6,093 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,464 | 14 | #4,580 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,668 | 19 | #3,619 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,418 | 19 | #3,500 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,161 | 14 | #4,422 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,621 | 8 | #6,568 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,986 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,274 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,795 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,433 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,099 | — | — |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,811 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,194 | — | — |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,454 |
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).