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Khalani vs Khaleesi

American parents have registered 5,537 Khaleesis since 1880, against 2,732 Khalanis. Khaleesi is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khalani against Khaleesi, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khalani Khaleesi

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

Of the 23 years in which either name was published, Khaleesi for 15 years and Khalani for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Khalani Khaleesi
Total US births 2,7325,537
Most in one year 326565
Babies in 2025 293410
Estimated living today 2,7005,500
Median age today 46
Peak year 20212018
Best rank 860th girls547th girls
Rank in 2025 904th689th
First recorded 20002011
Girls / boys 2,671 / 615,537 / 0

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 Khaleesis alive today are over 6; half the Khalanis are over 4. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Khalani Khaleesi
England and Wales 31617

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Khalani and Khaleesi.