Meaning not yet researched.
Khalil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 826 in 2025. Its best rank was #251 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #251 in 1995; #384 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Khalil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#384 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #251.
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Khalil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 826 boys in 2025. Peak: #251 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 1,233 (2020).
In 2025, 826 US boys were named Khalil, making it the 384th most common boys’ name of the year, up 8 places from #392 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 831 boys named Khalil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #251, reached in 1995. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,233, in 2020. For comparison, it was #479 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Khalil in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 25,203 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,993 babies named Khalil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,470 US boys were named Khalil; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 1,233. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,068 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Khalil ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #89 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kahlil (4,288 babies since 1880) and Khaleel (1,222 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Khalel, Khaliel and Khalyl 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: Khalel (287), Khaliel (173), Khalyl (85), Khaleil (46), Khaleal (28), Khaliyl (18), Chalil (10), Khailil (10), Khahlil (7), Khalill (6), Khallil (5), Khalial (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 Khalil 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 10 | #89 | #151 |
| Mississippi | 29 | #104 | #400 |
| Louisiana | 35 | #147 | #449 |
| Georgia | 45 | #276 | #268 |
| South Carolina | 20 | #281 | #223 |
| Michigan | 35 | #285 | #298 |
| Virginia | 30 | #286 | #286 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #289 | — |
| Florida | 65 | #298 | #377 |
| Illinois | 36 | #302 | #354 |
| Maryland | 18 | #309 | #202 |
| Alabama | 17 | #325 | #431 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #340 | — |
| Ohio | 33 | #344 | #637 |
| Tennessee | 24 | #356 | #710 |
| North Carolina | 30 | #378 | #301 |
| Texas | 95 | #384 | #486 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #407 | — |
| Kentucky | 12 | #415 | #568 |
| Missouri | 14 | #446 | #430 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #446 | #402 |
| New York | 37 | #458 | #584 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #459 | #411 |
| California | 62 | #502 | #728 |
| Indiana | 14 | #504 | #771 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #517 | #496 |
| Arizona | 13 | #543 | #959 |
| Washington | 13 | #552 | #810 |
| Kansas | 6 | #558 | — |
| Nevada | 5 | #558 | #422 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #590 | — |
| New Jersey | 12 | #591 | #568 |
| Iowa | 5 | #630 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #669 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #722 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #875 | #520 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 826 | #384 |
| 2024 | — | — | 831 | #392 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,330 | 982 | #340 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,091 | #308 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,523 | 1,148 | #294 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,713 | 1,233 | #274 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,193 | 1,127 | #302 |
| 2018 | — | — | 803 | #395 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,220 | 733 | #424 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,620 | 696 | #446 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,497 | 624 | #479 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,932 | 625 | #465 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,494 | 602 | #465 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,962 | 616 | #446 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,812 | 580 | #462 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,025 | 516 | #501 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,269 | 553 | #496 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,626 | 557 | #492 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,123 | 556 | #483 |
| 2006 | — | — | 600 | #450 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,505 | 566 | #452 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,214 | 620 | #418 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,882 | 546 | #461 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,551 | 583 | #424 |
| 2001 | — | — | 626 | #400 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,093 | 619 | #404 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,666 | 700 | #372 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,297 | 611 | #400 |
| 1997 | — | — | 577 | #403 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,669 | 714 | #348 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,444 | 1,118 | #251 |
| 1994 | — | — | 372 | #528 |
| 1993 | — | — | 287 | #616 |
| 1992 | — | — | 249 | #660 |
| 1991 | — | — | 154 | #836 |
| 1990 | — | — | 144 | #852 |
| 1989 | — | — | 113 | #960 |
| 1988 | — | — | 84 | #1,088 |
| 1987 | — | — | 78 | #1,090 |
| 1986 | — | — | 82 | #1,026 |
| 1985 | — | — | 80 | #1,028 |
| 1984 | — | — | 76 | #1,027 |
| 1983 | — | — | 69 | #1,070 |
| 1982 | — | — | 76 | #1,044 |
| 1981 | — | — | 68 | #1,106 |
| 1980 | — | — | 74 | #1,052 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,474 | 78 | #1,010 |
| 1978 | — | — | 64 | #1,095 |
| 1977 | — | — | 56 | #1,182 |
| 1976 | — | — | 45 | #1,328 |
| 1975 | — | — | 35 | #1,522 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,169 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,946 |
| 1972 | — | — | 25 | #1,798 |
| 1971 | — | — | 17 | #2,329 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #2,986 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,181 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,256 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,121 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,387 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,413 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,458 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,842 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,854 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,505 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,283 |
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).