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Khaliq

#8,602 in 2025Boys' name

Creator

Khaliq has been given to 755 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #8,602 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Khaliq, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khaliq: meaning, origin, and history

Creator

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Khaliq means

Khaliq means “creator”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 755 boys were recorded with the name Khaliq between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2003; its best national rank was #2,559 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,364 in 2020 to #8,602 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,351 in 2015 to #8,602 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.

How common is Khaliq?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,602
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khaliq 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khaliq. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khaliqs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khaliq was born before 2007 — so the typical Khaliq is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
755
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (270).

Is Khaliq 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
+855
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,238
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,251
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.5%
Peak was 2003 (40)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,559
2003

Spellings of Khaliq

Khaliq is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 45.8% against Khaliq's 1.4%.

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 Khaliq is used

Across 1910–2025, Khaliq was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 326,522 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Virginia1 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. Khaliq has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Khaliq around the world

Where Khaliq 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
    2010–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Khaliq by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,602
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,238
Best rank ever
#2,559
2003
Peak year
2003
40 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
755
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Khaliq

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

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Sibling names for Khaliq

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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