Khalisah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Khalisah has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2014. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Khalisah, 2014
1 in 618,000
Khalisah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Khalisah?
Khalisah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 618,000
- 6 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 298,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 428,229 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Khalisah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khalisah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Khalisahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Khalisah was born before 2014 — so the typical Khalisah is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Khalisah 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2014 (6)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Khalisah
Khalisah is not the most common spelling — Kaliyah is, with 37.1% against Khalisah'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.
Khalisah around the world
Where Khalisah 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 & Wales1997–2025#5,927in 2025
- France2013–2017#5,299in 2017
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Khalisah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Khalisah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Khalisah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.