Khalil Forename
1,147th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 816,187 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Pakistan
Highest density in:
Oman
Khalil Forename User-submission:
Khalil or Khaleel (Arabic: خليل [xaliːl]) means 'friend'. It is a common male given name in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and among Muslims in South Asia. The female counterpart of this name is Khalila or Khaleela.
Khalil Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 97% | 170,352 | 1:1,141 | 214 |
| India | 100% | 98,698 | 1:12,309 | 1,695 |
| Iran | 100% | 76,512 | 1:1,026 | 180 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 62,421 | 1:494 | 56 |
| Syria | - | 60,041 | 1:322 | 50 |
| Morocco | 100% | 41,955 | 1:819 | 166 |
| Oman | 99% | 40,456 | 1:102 | 16 |
| Iraq | 100% | 37,282 | 1:939 | 227 |
| Jordan | 100% | 29,050 | 1:304 | 49 |
| Sudan | 100% | 24,194 | 1:1,563 | 293 |
| Yemen | - | 22,916 | 1:1,148 | 195 |
| Palestine | 100% | 19,893 | 1:229 | 25 |
| Afghanistan | 97% | 19,437 | 1:1,678 | 312 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 18,890 | 1:298 | 44 |
| Egypt | 100% | 18,478 | 1:4,974 | 568 |
| Algeria | 100% | 11,388 | 1:3,352 | 460 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 8,248 | 1:19,333 | 2,209 |
| Libya | - | 7,712 | 1:807 | 145 |
| United States | 100% | 5,597 | 1:64,773 | 3,336 |
| Chad | 94% | 5,066 | 1:2,684 | 386 |
| Uzbekistan | 97% | 4,056 | 1:7,590 | 1,119 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 3,585 | 1:49,530 | 3,636 |
| Russia | 100% | 3,207 | 1:44,975 | 1,033 |
| Bahrain | - | 3,167 | 1:426 | 61 |
| Somaliland | - | 2,004 | 1:1,747 | 284 |
| Nepal | 99% | 1,480 | 1:19,248 | 1,847 |
| England | 100% | 1,427 | 1:38,965 | 2,004 |
| France | 100% | 1,311 | 1:50,702 | 1,538 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,265 | 1:203,924 | 19,635 |
| Philippines | 98% | 1,256 | 1:84,402 | 5,033 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 1,238 | 1:547 | 96 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 1,161 | 1:26,227 | 2,503 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,148 | 1:28,862 | 2,328 |
| Brazil | 100% | 983 | 1:217,941 | 9,443 |
| Spain | 100% | 969 | 1:48,019 | 1,951 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 766 | 1:9,337 | 1,044 |
| Senegal | 100% | 626 | 1:23,293 | 1,298 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 572 | 1:10,443 | 1,527 |
| Sweden | 100% | 572 | 1:17,234 | 1,263 |
| Kenya | - | 542 | 1:85,437 | 4,789 |
| Mali | 100% | 497 | 1:34,160 | 2,094 |
| Germany | 100% | 474 | 1:203,962 | 3,139 |
| Belgium | 100% | 376 | 1:30,559 | 1,914 |
| South Africa | 100% | 295 | 1:184,856 | 12,246 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 286 | 1:29,283 | 1,760 |
| Poland | 100% | 283 | 1:134,371 | 2,707 |
| Ghana | - | 281 | 1:96,036 | 4,158 |
| Thailand | 100% | 275 | 1:254,785 | 15,349 |
| Georgia | 99% | 242 | 1:15,448 | 1,228 |
| Denmark | - | 170 | 1:33,232 | 1,517 |
| Mauritania | 98% | 166 | 1:24,670 | 1,659 |
| Ivory Coast | 96% | 164 | 1:140,707 | 7,768 |
| Gabon | - | 160 | 1:11,771 | 1,796 |
| Uganda | 64% | 160 | 1:255,981 | 7,946 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 150 | 1:118,312 | 3,353 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 130 | 1:232,322 | 8,057 |
| Azerbaijan | 98% | 126 | 1:76,531 | 3,883 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 125 | 1:422,307 | 12,872 |
| Kuwait | - | 114 | 1:33,204 | 3,097 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 93 | 1:112,164 | 5,632 |
| Netherlands | 98% | 91 | 1:185,737 | 7,248 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 90 | 1:15,127 | 1,982 |
| Norway | 100% | 89 | 1:57,667 | 2,259 |
| Australia | - | 87 | 1:156,984 | 4,547 |
| Italy | 100% | 79 | 1:772,938 | 7,237 |
| Mauritius | - | 75 | 1:17,304 | 1,812 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 70 | 1:262,564 | 10,858 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 62 | 1:348,556 | 12,559 |
| Greece | 100% | 57 | 1:191,834 | 3,983 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 56 | 1:146,670 | 3,910 |
| Scotland | 100% | 49 | 1:109,191 | 2,512 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 49 | 1:144,667 | 358 |
| Qatar | 100% | 46 | 1:51,513 | 6,571 |
| Mexico | 90% | 44 | 1:2,821,464 | 14,460 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 40 | 1:136,822 | 1,350 |
| Austria | 100% | 35 | 1:243,263 | 3,286 |
| Finland | 78% | 35 | 1:156,662 | 2,989 |
| Japan | - | 34 | 1:3,764,296 | 25,024 |
| Niger | 80% | 32 | 1:599,500 | 11,382 |
| Chile | 89% | 31 | 1:567,974 | 6,542 |
| China | - | 29 | 1:47,105,372 | 62,105 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 27 | 1:2,734,356 | 59,996 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 25 | 1:3,902,405 | 10,287 |
| Guyana | 100% | 23 | 1:33,185 | 3,507 |
| French Polynesia | - | 22 | 1:12,632 | 1,507 |
| Armenia | 100% | 21 | 1:138,988 | 3,006 |
| Argentina | 87% | 20 | 1:2,138,662 | 7,817 |
| Wales | 100% | 18 | 1:171,906 | 3,302 |
| Israel | 99% | 16 | 1:525,182 | 10,080 |
| Belarus | 100% | 15 | 1:632,159 | 3,807 |
| Belize | 100% | 15 | 1:23,621 | 2,493 |
| Singapore | 100% | 15 | 1:419,137 | 10,588 |
| Ireland | 100% | 14 | 1:331,680 | 4,801 |
| Benin | 100% | 14 | 1:755,417 | 21,293 |
| Panama | 100% | 13 | 1:300,504 | 9,934 |
| Turkey | 100% | 13 | 1:5,984,747 | 24,872 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 12 | 1:603,067 | 5,347 |
| Guinea | 100% | 11 | 1:1,078,059 | 3,355 |
| Liberia | 100% | 11 | 1:401,096 | 11,764 |
| Peru | 100% | 10 | 1:3,179,145 | 27,401 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 9 | 1:96,786 | 2,691 |
| Djibouti | - | 9 | 1:101,740 | 979 |
| Ecuador | - | 9 | 1:1,969,658 | 11,243 |
| Somalia | - | 9 | 1:1,502,874 | 3,918 |
| Togo | - | 9 | 1:804,360 | 4,738 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 8 | 1:663,758 | 2,742 |
| Ukraine | - | 8 | 1:5,687,488 | 9,604 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 7 | 1:681,135 | 8,843 |
| Grenada | 100% | 7 | 1:15,446 | 1,649 |
| Jamaica | - | 7 | 1:411,890 | 11,384 |
| Romania | 100% | 7 | 1:2,864,568 | 25,615 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:5,208 | 987 |
| Czechia | 100% | 6 | 1:1,776,027 | 4,577 |
| Hong Kong | - | 6 | 1:1,292,121 | 6,806 |
| Hungary | 100% | 6 | 1:1,631,962 | 4,089 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 4 | 1:4,068,332 | 35,322 |
| Colombia | - | 4 | 1:11,944,732 | 44,648 |
| Moldova | - | 4 | 1:890,285 | 4,314 |
| Mongolia | - | 4 | 1:733,704 | 10,632 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 4 | 1:887,575 | 4,962 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 4 | 1:27,437 | 2,836 |
| Bahamas | - | 3 | 1:133,123 | 2,262 |
| Barbados | - | 3 | 1:96,596 | 2,324 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 3 | 1:59,272 | 4,116 |
| South Korea | - | 3 | 1:1,848,140 | 23,578 |
| Zambia | - | 3 | 1:5,284,931 | 37,895 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Croatia | 100% | 2 | 1:2,108,538 | 15,895 |
| New Zealand | - | 2 | 1:2,268,022 | 12,390 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 2 | 1:7,711,908 | 84,647 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 1 | 1:243,422 | 3,525 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Congo | 100% | 1 | 1:5,009,205 | 37,978 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Estonia | - | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Honduras | - | 1 | 1:8,817,467 | 33,018 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 1 | 1:8,152,314 | 202,620 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Serbia | 100% | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 1 | 1:580,957 | 8,641 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 1 | 1:23,769,682 | 193,280 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Vietnam | - | 1 | 1:92,623,113 | 10,484 |
The alternate forms: Khàlil (1) are calculated separately.
Khalil (1,311,652) may also be a surname.
Khalil Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
Khalil or Khaleel (Arabic: خليل [xaliːl]) means 'friend'. It is a common male given name in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and among Muslims in South Asia. The female counterpart of this name is Khalila or Khaleela.
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Khalil Demographics
Khalil Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 226 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Khalil Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Khalil in the Russian language | ||
| Халил | halil | - |
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