Khayri

Boys' name

Charitable, beneficent

Khayri has been given to 289 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 2010, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Khayri, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khayri: meaning, origin, and history

Charitable, beneficent

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Khayri means

Khayri means “charitable, beneficent”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Khayri is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈxaj.riːj/ for Khayri.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 289 boys were recorded with the name Khayri between 1990 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2010; its best national rank was #5,151 in 2010.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Khayri?

Khayri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khayri 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khayri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khayris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khayri was born before 2008 — so the typical Khayri is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
289
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (93).

Is Khayri 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
New entry
Not ranked then
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
0%
Peak was 2010 (18)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,151
2010

Spellings of Khayri

Khayri is not the most common spelling — Khari is, with 28.1% against Khayri's 1.7%.

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.

Khayri around the world

Where Khayri 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
    2006–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2017–2023
    #6,638
    in 2023

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.

Khayri by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,151
2010
Peak year
2010
18 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
289
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Khayri

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

Sibling names for Khayri

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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