Halil

given name · Turkish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Halil is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variant of Hawker . Lands at Halkerston (Midlothian) were held by the king’s falconer.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 361◐
  • CYCyprus1 in 438
  • SYSyria1 in 651

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈256K ●

across 14 countries

#715 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
139 ●

3.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 361 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

HalilLatin · Turkish●3.4M records
חלילHebrew · Hebrew●36K records
ሀሊልEthiopic · Amharic●49 records
হালিলBengali · Bangla●1 records

Locally spelled חליל in IL Israel, IR Iran, LB Lebanon and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Halil: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Halil
  1. Low Germanor◐via Hawker
  2. Middle Low Germanhoker◐via Hawker

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

variant of Hawker . Lands at Halkerston (Midlothian) were held by the king’s falconer.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Halil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#17227,0813.3M rec.1 in 361227KHalil126
IL Israel#21954,04985K rec.—3.1Kחליל22
SY Syria#4951,15786K rec.——Halil12
US United States—16,997△1.9K rec.1 in 20K17KHalil139
CY Cyprus#515,1996.4K rec.——Halil21
FR France—4,725△17 rec.1 in 14K4.7K—3
BE Belgium#7782,3902.4K rec.—765Halil36
SE Sweden—2,200△272 rec.1 in 4.6K2.2KHalil25
GB United Kingdom—2,100950 rec.—listedHalil64
IQ Iraq—1,6611.9K rec.——Halil6
ES Spain—1,412△71 rec.1 in 35K1.4K—16
AL Albania—1,212—1 in 2.5K1.2K——

Roughly 227K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 361). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish3.4M89%
  • Kurdish241K6%
  • German32K1%
  • Arabic27K1%
  • French14K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish3,357,16489%
Kurdish240,7376%
German32,2551%
Arabic26,8921%
French14,1481%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Halil is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name58K records spelled Halil13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Austria, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written H'Alil, Halíl, Ḫalīl, H̱alīl, Halīl

  • French given name16K records spelled Halil2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Syria

    Also written H'Alil

  • Indonesian given name8.6K records spelled Halil4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Malaysia, Indonesia, Syria

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written H'Alil, Hãlil

  • Spanish given name8.5K records spelled Halil14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written H'Alil, Hâlîl, H̱alīl, Halīl, H̲alīl

  • Danish given name2.9K records spelled Halil6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Türkiye, Syria

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Hãlíl

  • a separate given name2.5K records spelled Halil9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Ḫalīl, H̲alīl, Hälil, H̱alīl, Ḥalīl

  • Finnish given name1.7K records spelled Halil5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Türkiye, Slovenia, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Hálil, Ḫalīl

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Halil is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, Sadık, samimi, dost.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In English, Old Norse; "comrade"

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  • In Czech, masculine singular past active participle of halit

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkmen, Abdulhalyl(Allahnyň guly).Wepaly dost.

    as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

025507510019001950200091 · 1967

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Halil in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1871–2025
Yearrecords
18711
18761
18791
18802
18821
18831
18841
18852
18884
18893
18906
18911
18922
18934
18944
18956
18963
18976
18987
18993
190010
19016
190210
190310
19044
190511
19066
19078
190815
190916
191022
19116
191218
191312
191418
191515
191614
191714
191816
191916
192025
192113
192227
192316
192417
192518
192623
192722
192833
192931
193036
193131
193242
193333
193439
193538
193639
193740
193830
193944
194039
194133
194247
194350
194458
194544
194651
194748
194849
194965
195059
195143
195253
195360
195472
195557
195665
195761
195871
195956
196071
196167
196256
196355
196473
196584
196660
196791
196873
196984
197085
197168
197283
197377
197467
197559
197645
197761
197853
197964
198055
198155
198253
198353
198448
198552
198646
198746
198842
198934
199034
199128
199232
199325
199435
199523
199628
199733
199824
199929
200020
200122
200216
200324
200427
200514
200611
200717
200819
200915
201019
201116
201214
201311
201414
20157
201616
201713
201810
201910
202012
20218
202213
20233
20249
20252

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 146 years between 1871–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Khalil Sultan, b. 1384Halil Kut, b. 1882Enver Hoxha, b. 1908Halil İnalcık, b. 1916Turgut Özal, b. 1927Khalil Al Ghamdi, b. 1970Halil Mutlu, b. 1973Halil Altıntop, b. 1982Halil Umut Meler, b. 1986Halil Dervişoğlu, b. 1999
  • Khalil Sultanb. 1384AFnot in their usual nameTimurid Sultan
  • Halil Kutb. 1882TRTurkish general and statesperson (1882–1957)
  • Enver Hoxhab. 1908ALnot in their usual nameformer First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, Prime Minister of Albania
  • Halil İnalcıkb. 1916TRTurkish historian (1916–2016)
  • Turgut Özalb. 1927TRnot in their usual name8th President of the Republic of Turkey (1927–1993)
  • Khalil Al Ghamdib. 1970SAnot in their usual namefootballer
  • Halil Mutlub. 1973TRTurkish weightlifter (born 1973)
  • Halil Altıntopb. 1982DETurkish association football player (born 1982)
  • Halil Umut Melerb. 1986TRTurkish association football referee (born 1986)
  • Halil Dervişoğlub. 1999NLTurkish-Dutch footballer (born 1999)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 63 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Halil
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025227K#17
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—4.5K#87
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—1.2K#391
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024965#1,890
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—686#1,324
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020684#16,419
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—571#2,527
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020430—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—406#2,888
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—326#639
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—310#5,487
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024241#583

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 398 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Halil?
We estimate roughly 256 thousand people bear Halil (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Halil have the most bearers?
We estimate about 227 thousand people bear Halil in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled halil.
Where is Halil most common?
Halil is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 361 people carrying it.
How common is Halil compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Halil is the 17th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Halil a male or female name?
Halil is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Halil mean?
Recorded meaning: variant of Hawker . Lands at Halkerston (Midlothian) were held by the king’s falconer.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Halil” — the 17th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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