Khayir
#4,958 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Khayir has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #4,958 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Khayir, 2025
1 in 166,000
Khayir 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Khayir?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 85,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,958
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Khayir sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khayir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Khayirs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Khayir was born before 2023 — so the typical Khayir is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 95.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 108
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 95.4% of all recorded uses (103).
Is Khayir 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
- −456
- Places dropped
- 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
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2022 (28)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 50.5% average annual change
Spellings of Khayir
Khayir is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 45.8% against Khayir's 0.20%.
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 Khayir is used
Across 1910–2025, Khayir was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 968,148 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 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. Khayir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Khayir by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Khayir
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Khayir
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.