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Khan

#7,438 in 2025Boys' name

Caravanserai (especially a large and grand one), through خان

Khan has been given to 442 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #7,438 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Khan, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khan: meaning, origin, and history

Caravanserai (especially a large and grand one), through خان

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Khan means

Khan belongs to the name family reached through Khan → خان. Its meaning is “caravanserai (especially a large and grand one)”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

As a surname via Urdu خان (xān), Persian خان (xân), among others. As a title, a proper noun form of khan.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Khan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Khan is used in English.

Khan comes through Urdu خان and Persian خان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include خان.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Khan is pronounced /ˈkɑːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 442 boys were recorded with the name Khan between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2019; its best national rank was #3,776 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,149 in 2020 to #7,438 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,788 in 2015 to #7,438 in 2025.

How common is Khan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,438
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khan 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khan was born before 2010 — so the typical Khan is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
442
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Khan 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
−379
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,289
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+350
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2019 (22)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,776
1969

Spellings of Khan

Khan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 19.1% against Khan's <0.01%.

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 Khan is used

Across 1910–2025, Khan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Khan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Khan around the world

Where Khan 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1998–2010
    #5,480
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1968–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Khan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,438
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,289
Best rank ever
#3,776
1969
Peak year
2019
22 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
442
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Khan

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

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Sibling names for Khan

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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