Kahli vs Kahlil
American parents have registered 4,288 Kahlils since 1880, against 579 Kahlis. Kahlil is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kahli Kahlil
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Kahlil has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1967 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2015, when Kahli had 31 and Kahlil had 63.
Side by side
| Kahli | Kahlil | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 579 | 4,288 |
| Most in one year | 31 | 268 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 50 |
| Estimated living today | 570 | 4,200 |
| Median age today | 16 | 22 |
| Peak year | 2015 | 1995 |
| Best rank | 5,127th girls | 629th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 2,604th |
| First recorded | 1984 | 1967 |
| Girls / boys | 462 / 117 | 5 / 4,283 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Kahlils alive today are over 22; half the Kahlis are over 16. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kahli and Kahlil.