Khan is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Khan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Khan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Khan by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Khan ranks at #4,978. That means there are 4,977 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Khan.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Khan. Boys named Khan have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,969 Khan ranked higher than ever in 1969. By comparison, there have been 101 years in which the first name Khan has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2011. In general, parents name their sons Khan only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Khan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Khan continues to be a precious jewel: 21 newborns were named Khan that year, ranking #4,063 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Khan, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a man or boy named Khan is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Khan can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Khan. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Khan living in one state or another. (If your name is Khan and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Khan is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00003% of all male residents are called Khan – that’s just one in 3,266,336! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Khan, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
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 four letters, the name Khan is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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 Khan 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 Khan, you can simply say:
Koala
Hat
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Khan
Khan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
H
A
N
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
H
A
N
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. Khan sounds like this:
