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Khairi vs Khalil

American parents have registered 25,203 Khalils since 1880, against 526 Khairis. Khalil is still ahead, with 826 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khairi 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 1991, when Khairi had 9 and Khalil had 154.

Side by side

  Khairi Khalil
Total US births 52625,203
Most in one year 341,242
Babies in 2025 10826
Estimated living today 52025,000
Median age today 1414
Peak year 20112020
Best rank 3,235th boys274th boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th384th
First recorded 19901957
Girls / boys 10 / 516182 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Khairi Khalil
England and Wales 171,640

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: Khairi and Khalil.