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Khaidyn vs Khalid

American parents have registered 8,197 Khalids since 1880, against 155 Khaidyns. Khalid is still ahead, with 250 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khaidyn Khalid

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

Khalid has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Khaidyn had 28 and Khalid had 172.

Side by side

  Khaidyn Khalid
Total US births 1558,197
Most in one year 28273
Babies in 2025 under 5250
Estimated living today 1508,000
Median age today 1219
Peak year 20132019
Best rank 3,661st boys826th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked940th
First recorded 20101962
Girls / boys 0 / 1550 / 8,197

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 Khalids alive today are over 19; half the Khaidyns are over 12. That is 7 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: Khaidyn and Khalid.