Khush
#13,048 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Khush has been given to 147 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #13,048 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Khush, 2025
1 in 663,000
Khush 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Khush?
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
- #13,048
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Khush 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khush. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Khushs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Khush was born before 2011 — so the typical Khush is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 44.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 147
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (65).
Is Khush 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
- −1,584
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.83×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 41.7%
- Peak was 2005 (12)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.3% average annual change
Spellings of Khush
Khush is not the most common spelling — Hugh is, with 73.9% against Khush's 0.13%.
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.
Khush around the world
Where Khush 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 & Wales1998–2025#2,664in 2025
- Canada2005–2013#2,635in 2013
- South Australia2011–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Khush by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Khush
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Khush
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.