Khalil

Khalil is the 3,649th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,492 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 31,500.

By the numbers

People: 9,492
Rank: 3,649th
How common: 1 in 31,500
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Khalil described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 9.6%
Black, not Hispanic 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Khalil

Al-Ashraf Khalil (1263–1293)Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1290–1293)
Ahmed Khalil (born 1991)footballer
Ahmed Khalil (born 1994)Tunisian association football player
Samiha Khalil (1923–1999)Palestinian politician
Mustafa Khalil (1920–2008)Egyptian Prime Minister
Christel Khalil (born 1987)American actress
Mona Khalil (1949–2026)Lebansese conservationist
Amal Khalil (1984–2026)Lebanese journalist

People named Khalil with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Khalil

Also a first name

Khalil has been given to 25,203 American babies as a first name since 1957, peaking in 2020. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.