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Khaled vs Khalil

American parents have registered 25,203 Khalils since 1880, against 2,777 Khaleds. Khalil is still ahead, with 826 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khaled 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 1969, when Khaled had 5 and Khalil had 6.

Side by side

  Khaled Khalil
Total US births 2,77725,203
Most in one year 1141,242
Babies in 2025 91826
Estimated living today 2,70025,000
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20242020
Best rank 1,540th boys274th boys
Rank in 2025 1,771st384th
First recorded 19691957
Girls / boys 0 / 2,777182 / 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.

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 Khaled Khalil
France 3,2054,975
England and Wales 5051,640
Norway 515171
Italy 247318
Belgium 109233
Switzerland 5682
Ireland 316
Scotland 66

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: Khaled and Khalil.