Jhalil

#7,915 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Jhalil has been given to 468 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #7,915 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Jhalil, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Jhalil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,915
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jhalil 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jhalil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jhalils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jhalil was born before 2011 — so the typical Jhalil is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
468
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (180).

Is Jhalil 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
−1,895
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,140
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,054
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 2017 (26)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,033
2017

Spellings of Jhalil

Jhalil is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 45.9% against Jhalil's 0.86%.

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.

Jhalil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,915
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,140
Best rank ever
#4,033
2017
Peak year
2017
26 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
468
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Jhalil

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

Sibling names for Jhalil

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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