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Khalil vs Khandice

American parents have registered 25,203 Khalils since 1880, against 34 Khandices. Khalil is still ahead, with 826 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khalil 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

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 1986, when Khalil had 82 and Khandice had 14.

Side by side

  Khalil Khandice
Total US births 25,20334
Most in one year 1,24214
Babies in 2025 826under 5
Estimated living today 25,00030
Median age today 1438
Peak year 20201986
Best rank 274th boys5,188th girls
Rank in 2025 384thunranked
First recorded 19571986
Girls / boys 182 / 25,02134 / 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 Khalils are over 14. That is 24 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: Khalil and Khandice.