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Khalid

#940 in 2025Boys' name

Immortal; glorious; eternal

Khalid has been given to 8,197 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #940 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 273 recorded.

Babies named Khalid, 2025

1 in 13,300

Khalid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khalid: meaning, origin, and history

Immortal; glorious; eternal

Arabic

What Khalid means

Khalid means “immortal; glorious; eternal”, associated with ḵālid.

Origin, language, and formation

Khalid is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Khalid comes through Arabic خَالِد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,197 boys were recorded with the name Khalid between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 273 in 2019; its best national rank was #715 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #898 in 2020 to #940 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,027 in 2015 to #940 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 Khalid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,300
250 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,830
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#940
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,193 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khalid 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,193 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khalid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khalids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khalid was born before 2006 — so the typical Khalid is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,197
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (2,092).

Is Khalid 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
−3
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−42
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+87
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.26×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.6%
Peak was 2019 (273)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#715
1994

Spellings of Khalid

Khalid is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 44.3% against Khalid's 14.5%.

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 Khalid is used

Across 2016–2025, Khalid was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,250 boys, against 1 in 6,696 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 33,333).

380 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,250
  2. 2New York1 in 3,704
  3. 3Illinois1 in 4,167
  4. 4Michigan1 in 4,167
  5. 5Washington1 in 4,167
  6. 6Ohio1 in 4,545
  7. 7Georgia1 in 5,556
  8. 8Virginia1 in 6,250

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.

Geographically, Khalid is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 95% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Khalid around the world

Where Khalid 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
    #252
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–2025
    #333
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1997–2025
    #372
    in 2025
  • France
    1960–2025
    #779
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #448
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #521
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #754
    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 Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Khalid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#940
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 42
Best rank ever
#715
1994
Peak year
2019
273 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,197
Count in 2025
250

Names similar to Khalid

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

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Names with a curve like Khalid

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

HasanEliezerMenachemBilalHassanMordechaiMustafaMikaelKarimSamiKenanYisroel

Sibling names for Khalid

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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