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Halid

#8,480 in 2025Boys' name

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Halid has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #8,480 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Halid, 2025

1 in 368,000

Halid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Halid: meaning, origin, and history

Immortal

Arabic

What Halid means

Halid means “immortal”, associated with ḵālid.

Origin, language, and formation

Halid is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Arabic.

Halid comes through Arabic خَالِد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 55 boys were recorded with the name Halid between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,905 in 2023.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,169 in 2015 to #8,480 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Halid?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,480
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Halid sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Halid was born before 2023 — so the typical Halid is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
55
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Halid rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+86
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,689
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.0%
Peak was 2023 (10)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
2.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,905
2023

Spellings of Halid

Halid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 94.8% against Halid's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Halid around the world

Where Halid ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2024–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1973–2025
    #2,856
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Halid by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,480
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,905
2023
Peak year
2023
10 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Halid

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HaloaHalimHalstenHalilHaltonHaleemHallisHaldenHalletHaldonHalasHalvorHalleyHallelHaldorHalenHallardHalleHallHalfordHallyHalitHaloHali

Sibling names for Halid

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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