Khaleesi
The girl's name Khaleesi has been in the national records since 2011, with 5,537 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 689th. About 5,500 Khaleesis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Khaleesi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,537
- Estimated living today
- 5,500
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 547th
- Rank in 2025
- 689th
- First recorded
- 2011
How old the living Khaleesis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,537 babies given the name since 2011, about 5,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 5,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a coined name
feminine of khal (“king”). Popularised by the later television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Khaleesi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Khaleesi is most concentrated in Nevada (4.7×), Florida (3.0×), Arizona (2.9×), New Mexico (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular girls’ names the year Khaleesi peaked:
Khaleesi elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Khaleesi | 617 | 565th |
| France girls | Khaleesi | 175 | 1,887th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Khaleesi | 15 | 358th |
| Ireland girls | Khaleesi | 12 | 584th |
| Belgium girls | Khaleesi | 11 | 1,283rd |
| Scotland girls | Khaleesi | 11 | 675th |
| Switzerland girls | Khaleesi | 8 | 1,380th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Khaleesi: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Khaleesi | 5 | 0.000% | 1,319th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Khaleesi | 3 | 0.001% | 824th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Khaleesi: rank by region
In 2014, Khaleesi was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Khaleesi | 863 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Khaleesi against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.