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Halil

Boys' name

Friend

Halil has been given to 94 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Halil, 2020

1 in 668,000

Halil over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Halil: meaning, origin, and history

Friend

Arabic

What Halil means

Halil means “friend”, associated with ḵalīl.

Origin, language, and formation

Halil is used in Albanian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Halil comes through Ottoman Turkish خلیل and Arabic خَلِيل.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 94 boys were recorded with the name Halil between 1999 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2017; its best national rank was #7,264 in 2017.

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 Halil?

Halil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Halil 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Halil was born before 2012 — so the typical Halil is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
64.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
94
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 64.9% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Halil 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (11)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,264
2017

Spellings of Halil

Halil is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 20.2% against Halil's 0.04%.

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.

Halil around the world

Where Halil 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
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2025
    #1,756
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1990–1993
    #519
    in 1993

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

Halil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,264
2017
Peak year
2017
11 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
94
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Halil

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

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Sibling names for Halil

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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