Khalil is an Arabic name, that means ‘friend’. It is a common name in the Middle East, Central Asia, in many African countries, and southeastern Europe.
Khalil is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Khalil isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Khalil ranks 366. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Khalil. In the entire USA, approximately 20,395 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Khalil. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Khalil is an Arabic name, that means ‘friend’. It is a common name in the Middle East, Central Asia, in many African countries, and southeastern Europe.
In the US,.. this name is in use since the 1980s.
Khalil 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 Khalil - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 239 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 Khalil really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Khalil was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,085 babies were named Khalil in 2022 - that's 1 in 148,780 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Khalil ranked 298 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 Khalil 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 Khalil 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 Khalil, you can simply say:
Koala
Hat
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Khalil
Khalil
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
H
A
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
H
A
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. Khalil sounds like this:
