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Khalid vs Khandice

American parents have registered 8,197 Khalids since 1880, against 34 Khandices. Khalid is still ahead, with 250 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khalid against Khandice, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khalid Khandice

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

Khalid has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Khalid had 72 and Khandice had 14.

Side by side

  Khalid Khandice
Total US births 8,19734
Most in one year 27314
Babies in 2025 250under 5
Estimated living today 8,00030
Median age today 1938
Peak year 20191986
Best rank 826th boys5,188th girls
Rank in 2025 940thunranked
First recorded 19621986
Girls / boys 0 / 8,19734 / 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 Khandices alive today are over 38; half the Khalids are over 19. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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