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Khalid

Khalid: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“eternal, immortal”
Origin
Arabic
Say it
KAH-lid · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys

From Arabic Khalid. A well-known bearer is Khalid ibn al-Walid, a 7th-century Muslim military commander.

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How popular is Khalid?

202474.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Khalid in 2024246

2024 rank#935 boys

Peak year2019

Total US babies since 18807,946

Khalid is rising: use over the last five years is 1.5× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Khalid

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Amircommander, prince · Arabic
  • Muhammadpraised · Arabic
  • Zaynbeauty, grace · Arabic
  • Omarflourishing, long-lived · Arabic
  • Cairovictorious · Arabic
  • Ibrahimfather of multitudes · Arabic
  • Khalilfriend, beloved · Arabic
  • Malikking · Arabic

Khalid questions

What does the name Khalid mean?

Khalid means "eternal, immortal". It comes from Arabic. From Arabic Khalid. A well-known bearer is Khalid ibn al-Walid, a 7th-century Muslim military commander.

Is Khalid a boy or girl name?

Khalid is mainly a boy's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Khalid?

246 US babies were named Khalid in 2024. Its peak year was 2019.

How do you pronounce Khalid?

Khalid is usually pronounced KAH-lid.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.