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Khaled

#1,773 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Khalid

Khaled has been given to 2,777 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #1,773 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Khaled, 2025

1 in 36,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khaled: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Khalid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Khaled means

Khaled is a alternate transcription of Khalid.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Khaled → Khalid. The family’s meaning is “immortal; glorious; eternal”, recorded in English with the source elements ḵālid.

Origin, language, and formation

Khaled is used in English.

Khaled comes through Arabic خَالِد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Khalid and خَالِد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,777 boys were recorded with the name Khaled between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 114 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,507 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,626 in 2020 to #1,773 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,621 in 2015 to #1,773 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 Khaled?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,400
91 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,773
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,253 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khaled 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khaled. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khaleds were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,777
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (927).

Is Khaled 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
−231
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−147
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−152
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.8%
Peak was 2024 (114)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,507
2016

Spellings of Khaled

Khaled is not the most common spelling — Kaleb is, with 56.9% against Khaled's 1.8%.

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.

Where Khaled is used

Across 2016–2025, Khaled was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 14,605 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 5,000
  2. 2New York1 in 7,692
  3. 3Illinois1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 11,111
  5. 5California1 in 14,286
  6. 6Ohio1 in 14,286
  7. 7Texas1 in 20,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Khaled around the world

Where Khaled 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
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1946–2025
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #448
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,011
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Khaled

People whose public names include Khaled, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Khaled in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Khaled. Linked forms have their own page here.

Chaled

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Khaled by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,773
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 147
Best rank ever
#1,507
2016
Peak year
2024
114 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,777
Count in 2025
91

Names similar to Khaled

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

KhalifKhamariKhalebKhalidKhazaKhariKhaliqKhaleelKhangKhaiKhairiKhadenKhamaniKhaliKhalonKhalilKhalelKhaydenKharterKhadimKhairoKhadirKhalanKhalen

Names with a curve like Khaled

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Khaled, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Khaled

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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