Meaning not yet researched.
Khalid: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 250 in 2025. Its best rank was #716 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #716 in 1994; #940 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Khalid in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#940 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #716.
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Khalid: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 250 boys in 2025. Peak: #716 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 273 (2019).
In 2025, 250 US boys were named Khalid, making it the 940th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3 places from #937 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 246 boys named Khalid in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #716, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 273, in 2019. For comparison, it was #1,027 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Khalid in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 8,197 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,092 babies named Khalid.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,487 US boys were named Khalid; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 273. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,832 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Khalid ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #380 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Khaled (2,777 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Khaleed, Khaalid and Khallid 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: Khaleed (254), Khaalid (138), Khallid (87).
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 Khalid 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 15 | #380 | #251 |
| Illinois | 27 | #411 | #1,046 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #538 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #573 | #870 |
| New York | 25 | #610 | #1,201 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #645 | #989 |
| Washington | 10 | #662 | — |
| Ohio | 13 | #693 | #1,039 |
| Michigan | 9 | #803 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #805 | #1,047 |
| Missouri | 5 | #936 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #979 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,027 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,085 | #1,090 |
| California | 18 | #1,134 | #1,035 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,163 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,164 | #1,461 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 250 | #940 |
| 2024 | — | — | 246 | #937 |
| 2023 | — | — | 218 | #1,011 |
| 2022 | — | — | 235 | #963 |
| 2021 | — | — | 259 | #891 |
| 2020 | — | — | 251 | #898 |
| 2019 | — | — | 273 | #827 |
| 2018 | — | — | 264 | #845 |
| 2017 | — | — | 253 | #863 |
| 2016 | — | — | 238 | #907 |
| 2015 | — | — | 198 | #1,027 |
| 2014 | — | — | 220 | #963 |
| 2013 | — | — | 172 | #1,086 |
| 2012 | — | — | 174 | #1,079 |
| 2011 | — | — | 157 | #1,150 |
| 2010 | — | — | 143 | #1,237 |
| 2009 | — | — | 139 | #1,268 |
| 2008 | — | — | 135 | #1,290 |
| 2007 | — | — | 152 | #1,166 |
| 2006 | — | — | 149 | #1,142 |
| 2005 | — | — | 143 | #1,138 |
| 2004 | — | — | 138 | #1,142 |
| 2003 | — | — | 172 | #952 |
| 2002 | — | — | 222 | #780 |
| 2001 | — | — | 246 | #717 |
| 2000 | — | — | 212 | #783 |
| 1999 | — | — | 172 | #881 |
| 1998 | — | — | 188 | #809 |
| 1997 | — | — | 150 | #912 |
| 1996 | — | — | 173 | #829 |
| 1995 | — | — | 213 | #737 |
| 1994 | — | — | 214 | #716 |
| 1993 | — | — | 116 | #1,026 |
| 1992 | — | — | 114 | #1,027 |
| 1991 | — | — | 110 | #1,035 |
| 1990 | — | — | 96 | #1,092 |
| 1989 | — | — | 82 | #1,178 |
| 1988 | — | — | 84 | #1,087 |
| 1987 | — | — | 52 | #1,414 |
| 1986 | — | — | 72 | #1,108 |
| 1985 | — | — | 60 | #1,236 |
| 1984 | — | — | 63 | #1,151 |
| 1983 | — | — | 66 | #1,100 |
| 1982 | — | — | 76 | #1,043 |
| 1981 | — | — | 76 | #1,049 |
| 1980 | — | — | 77 | #1,035 |
| 1979 | — | — | 96 | #894 |
| 1978 | — | — | 107 | #829 |
| 1977 | — | — | 77 | #977 |
| 1976 | — | — | 61 | #1,076 |
| 1975 | — | — | 65 | #1,025 |
| 1974 | — | — | 51 | #1,161 |
| 1973 | — | — | 51 | #1,157 |
| 1972 | — | — | 31 | #1,549 |
| 1971 | — | — | 36 | #1,428 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,768 |
| 1969 | — | — | 18 | #2,017 |
| 1968 | — | — | 23 | #1,666 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,695 |
| 1966 | — | — | 15 | #2,096 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,730 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,839 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,841 |
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).