Kahlil is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Kahlil is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 boys have been named Kahlil. In the SmartGenius ranking, Kahlil is #1,638 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kahlil.
Kahlil is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Kahlil - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 594 in 1995. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Kahlil really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kahlil was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
86 babies were named Kahlil in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,877,047 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Kahlil ranked 1,672 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds that a man or boy named Kahlil lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Kahlil in 20 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Kahlil live in Maryland – here, one in 16,665 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 71,610 will turn around if you call his first name Kahlil.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Kahlil is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kahlil and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kahlil, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Hat
Lion
Igloo
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kahlil
Kahlil
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
H
L
I
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
A
H
L
I
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kahlil sounds like this:
