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Khaizer vs Khalid

American parents have registered 8,197 Khalids since 1880, against 31 Khaizers. Khalid is still ahead, with 250 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khaizer 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 2021, when Khaizer had 12 and Khalid had 259.

Side by side

  Khaizer Khalid
Total US births 318,197
Most in one year 12273
Babies in 2025 under 5250
Estimated living today 308,000
Median age today 319
Peak year 20212019
Best rank 6,698th boys826th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked940th
First recorded 20211962
Girls / boys 0 / 310 / 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 Khaizers are over 3. That is 16 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: Khaizer and Khalid.