Khalisa

#14,083 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Khalisa has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #14,083 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Khalisa, 2025

1 in 553,000

Khalisa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Khalisa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,083
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khalisa 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khalisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khalisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khalisa was born before 2020 — so the typical Khalisa is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
59.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
27
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Choose a decade

2020s — 59.3% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Khalisa 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
+2,435
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,274
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2012 (6)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#14,083
2025

Spellings of Khalisa

Khalisa is not the most common spelling — Alisa is, with 31.7% against Khalisa's 0.02%.

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.

Khalisa around the world

Where Khalisa 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
    2002–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025

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

Khalisa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,083
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,274
Best rank ever
#14,083
2025
Peak year
2012
6 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Khalisa

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

Sibling names for Khalisa

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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