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Khaleesi

#690 in 2025Girls' name

Queen

Khaleesi has been given to 5,537 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #690 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 565 recorded.

Babies named Khaleesi, 2025

1 in 8,090

Khaleesi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khaleesi: meaning, origin, and history

Queen

coinages and constructed languages

What Khaleesi means

Khaleesi means “queen”, associated with khaleesi.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Dothraki khaleesi (“queen”), feminine of khal (“king”). Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin for the title of the character Daenerys Targaryen in his book A Song of Ice and Fire (1996) novels. Popularised by the later television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Khaleesi (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Khaleesi is used in English. Its origins include coinages and constructed languages.

Khaleesi is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Khaleesi is pronounced /kəˈliː.si/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,537 girls were recorded with the name Khaleesi between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 565 in 2018; its best national rank was #549 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #734 in 2020 to #690 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #822 in 2015 to #690 in 2025.

How common is Khaleesi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,090
410 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,920
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#690
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,606 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khaleesi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,606 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khaleesi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khaleesis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khaleesi was born before 2019 — so the typical Khaleesi is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,537
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (3,066).

Is Khaleesi 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
−23
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+44
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+132
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.6%
Peak was 2018 (565)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#549
2018

Where Khaleesi is used

Across 2016–2025, Khaleesi was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,333 girls, against 1 in 3,333 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 16,667).

675 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,333
  2. 2Nevada1 in 1,493
  3. 3Arizona1 in 2,041
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 2,128
  5. 5Florida1 in 2,128
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 2,778
  7. 7New York1 in 2,857
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 2,941

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Geographically, Khaleesi is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 37% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Khaleesi around the world

Where Khaleesi 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
    2011–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2017
    #666
    in 2017
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2019
    #424
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2014–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    2013–2025
    #2,751
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Khaleesi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#690
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 44
Best rank ever
#549
2018
Peak year
2018
565 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,537
Count in 2025
410

Names similar to Khaleesi

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

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Names with a curve like Khaleesi

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

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Sibling names for Khaleesi

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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