Khalyl

#13,036 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Khalyl has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #13,036 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Khalyl, 2025

1 in 663,000

Khalyl over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,036
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khalyl 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khalyl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khalyls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khalyl was born before 2011 — so the typical Khalyl is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
85
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2000s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Khalyl 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,870
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2022 (10)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,054
2022

Spellings of Khalyl

Khalyl is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 51.0% against Khalyl's 0.17%.

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.

Khalyl around the world

Where Khalyl 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.

  • France
    2004–2025
    #3,003
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Khalyl by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,036
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,870
Best rank ever
#8,054
2022
Peak year
2022
10 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Khalyl

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

Sibling names for Khalyl

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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