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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

Births per year: Kahli against Kahlil, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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 5794,288
Most in one year 31268
Babies in 2025 under 550
Estimated living today 5704,200
Median age today 1622
Peak year 20151995
Best rank 5,127th girls629th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,604th
First recorded 19841967
Girls / boys 462 / 1175 / 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.