# Khalil (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/khalil/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “friend” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 25,203 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 25,021 / 182 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,640, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَلِيل (ḵalīl, “friend”).

## What it means

Khalil is grouped under friend.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | 19,123 |
| 2008 | 7 | 14,626 |
| 2009 | 6 | 16,269 |
| 2010 | 6 | 16,025 |
| 2011 | 10 | 10,812 |
| 2012 | 6 | 15,962 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,494 |
| 2014 | 5 | 17,932 |
| 2015 | 6 | 15,497 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,620 |
| 2017 | 8 | 12,220 |
| 2019 | 16 | 7,193 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,713 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,523 |
| 2023 | 6 | 14,330 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 580 | 462 |
| 2012 | 616 | 446 |
| 2013 | 602 | 465 |
| 2014 | 625 | 465 |
| 2015 | 624 | 479 |
| 2016 | 696 | 446 |
| 2017 | 733 | 424 |
| 2018 | 803 | 395 |
| 2019 | 1,127 | 302 |
| 2020 | 1,233 | 274 |
| 2021 | 1,148 | 294 |
| 2022 | 1,091 | 308 |
| 2023 | 982 | 340 |
| 2024 | 831 | 392 |
| 2025 | 826 | 384 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 47 | 681 |
| 2012 | 36 | 852 |
| 2013 | 41 | 771 |
| 2014 | 62 | 574 |
| 2015 | 46 | 719 |
| 2016 | 56 | 631 |
| 2017 | 48 | 719 |
| 2018 | 61 | 596 |
| 2019 | 90 | 449 |
| 2020 | 108 | 392 |
| 2021 | 104 | 410 |
| 2022 | 111 | 381 |
| 2023 | 131 | 331 |
| 2024 | 160 | 283 |
| 2025 | 128 | 331 |

## People named Khalil

- Khalil al-Hayya, Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau
- Khalil Haqqani, Afghan minister
- Khalil Rountree Jr., American mixed martial arts fighter
- Khalil bey Khasmammadov, Azerbaijani politician and diplomat (1873-1947)
- Khalil Mack, American football player (born 1991)
- DJ Khalil, American record producer and DJ from Washington
- Khalil Ibrahim Al-Zayani, footballer Saudi
- Khalil Kain, American actor
- Khalil Al Qaheri, Bahraini Entrepreneur
- Killy, Canadian rapper

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.