Khalif
#4,322 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Khalif has been given to 1,740 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #4,322 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 55 recorded.
Babies named Khalif, 2025
1 in 138,000
Khalif over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Khalif?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 71,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,322
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Khalif sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khalif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Khalifs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Khalif was born before 2000 — so the typical Khalif is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 26.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,740
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (457).
Is Khalif 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
- −578
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,501
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,268
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 43.6%
- Peak was 1992 (55)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.9% average annual change
Spellings of Khalif
Khalif is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 43.6% against Khalif's 3.0%.
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 Khalif is used
Across 1910–2025, Khalif was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 82,409 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 25,000
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
- 3Florida1 in 100,000
- 4New York1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 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. Khalif has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Khalif around the world
Where Khalif 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 & Wales1996–2025#4,275in 2025
- France2019–2024#4,543in 2024
- South Australia1992–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Khalif by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Khalif
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Khalif
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.