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Khaled vs Khaleesi

American parents have registered 5,537 Khaleesis since 1880, against 2,777 Khaleds. Khaleesi is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khaled 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 56 years in which either name was published, Khaled for 42 years and Khaleesi for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Khaled Khaleesi
Total US births 2,7775,537
Most in one year 114565
Babies in 2025 91410
Estimated living today 2,7005,500
Median age today 136
Peak year 20242018
Best rank 1,540th boys547th girls
Rank in 2025 1,771st689th
First recorded 19692011
Girls / boys 0 / 2,7775,537 / 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 Khaleds alive today are over 13; half the Khaleesis are over 6. That is 7 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 Khaled Khaleesi
France 3,205175
England and Wales 505617
Belgium 10911
Switzerland 568
Scotland 611
Ireland 312

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 Khaleesi.