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Khaizer vs Khalil

American parents have registered 25,203 Khalils since 1880, against 31 Khaizers. Khalil is still ahead, with 826 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khaizer against Khalil, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khaizer Khalil

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

Khalil has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Khaizer had 12 and Khalil had 1,153.

Side by side

  Khaizer Khalil
Total US births 3125,203
Most in one year 121,242
Babies in 2025 under 5826
Estimated living today 3025,000
Median age today 314
Peak year 20212020
Best rank 6,698th boys274th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked384th
First recorded 20211957
Girls / boys 0 / 31182 / 25,021

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 Khalils alive today are over 14; half the Khaizers are over 3. That is 11 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 Khalil.