girls:
5 births since 2018
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.1k births since 1967
#1897 (59th percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1967
#4249 (45th percentile)
The name Kahlil is the #4,249 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,151 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 45.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,897 (58.6% percentile) for all time with 4,146 births since 1967. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2018.
Kahlil first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for boys and 2018 for girls).
The name Kahlil has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kahlil reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 31.5% percentile (ranked #548) with 133 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 133 births per million (ranked 31.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kahlil ranks #845 for boys (7.3% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 29.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kahlil reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #961) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kahlil".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Kahlil", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 28 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Khalil" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Khalil..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Kahlil. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.1% confident that Kahlil is pronounced as kuh-LEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-LEEL, at 32.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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