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Khaleel

#3,350 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Khalil

Khaleel has been given to 1,222 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #3,350 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Khaleel, 2025

1 in 94,700

Khaleel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khaleel: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Khalil

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Khaleel means

Khaleel is a alternate transcription of Khalil.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Khaleel → Khalil. The family’s meaning is “friend”, recorded in English with the source elements ḵalīl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Khalil.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,222 boys were recorded with the name Khaleel between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,833 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,568 in 2020 to #3,350 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,031 in 2015 to #3,350 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 Khaleel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,350
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khaleel 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khaleel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khaleels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khaleel was born before 2008 — so the typical Khaleel is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,222
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (302).

Is Khaleel 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
−735
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−782
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+681
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.8%
Peak was 1999 (54)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,833
1999

Spellings of Khaleel

Khaleel is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 62.7% against Khaleel's 3.1%.

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 Khaleel is used

Across 1910–2025, Khaleel was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 319,366 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Maryland1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

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. Khaleel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Khaleel around the world

Where Khaleel 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
    #953
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2025
    #5,109
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Khaleel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,350
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 782
Best rank ever
#1,833
1999
Peak year
1999
54 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,222
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Khaleel

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

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Sibling names for Khaleel

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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