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Khali

The girl's name Khali has been in the national records since 1978, with 2,087 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,780th. About 2,100 Khalis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Khali boys named Khali

Girls and boys called Khali

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Khali crossed from boys to girls in 2010, and has stayed there for 16 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 87% girls, and in 2025 it was 72%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 27 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,087
Estimated living today
2,100
Median age today
10
Peak year
2018
Best rank
1,774th
Rank in 2025
3,780th
First recorded
1978
Girls / boys
1,387 / 700

How old the living Khalis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,087 babies given the name since 1978, about 2,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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 Khali is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Khali is most concentrated in Louisiana (4.4×), Georgia (3.9×), Texas (2.7×), Florida (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2018

The most popular girls’ names the year Khali peaked:

All the names of 2018

Khali elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Khali 15 2,964th
France boys Khali 5 3,792nd
England and Wales girls Khali 3 5,730th

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.

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Khali against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.