Khalid
given name · Urdu · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khalid is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 90th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Undying’, ‘eternal’.
- DZAlgeria1 in 161◐
- QAQatar1 in 189
- SYSyria1 in 203
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈28K ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 335 ●
- 1 in 5.3K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
1.2M records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Khaled in BD Bangladesh, SY Syria, DZ Algeria and 8 more, Халид in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Halid in TR Türkiye.
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●
‘Undying’, ‘eternal’. Khalid ibnal-Walid (d. 642) was the military strategist principally responsible for the spread of Islam by force in its early days.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #90 | 344,148 | 5.2K rec. | — | listed | Khaled | 94 |
| IN India | — | 234,623 | 112K rec. | — | 1.8K | Khalid | 123 |
| SY Syria | #11 | 163,767 | 186K rec. | — | — | Khaled | 78 |
| DZ Algeria | #39 | 151,061 | 22K rec. | — | — | Khaled | 91 |
| PK Pakistan | #20 | 143,069 | 16K rec. | — | listed | Khalid | 132 |
| EG Egypt | #21 | 113,374 | 95K rec. | — | listed | Khaled | 201 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #28 | 64,427 | 32K rec. | — | — | Khalid | 205 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 63,037 | 79K rec. | — | — | Halid | 45 |
| MA Morocco | #10 | 57,987 | 57K rec. | — | — | Khalid | 130 |
| RU Russia | #490 | 50,722 | 31K rec. | — | #182 | Халид | 112 |
| GB United Kingdom | #775 | 20,326 | 22K rec. | — | listed | Khalid | 140 |
| YE Yemen | #38 | 17,812 | 5.8K rec. | — | — | Khaled | 75 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Urdu205K19%
- Arabic189K17%
- English169K15%
- Hindi123K11%
- Bangla78K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Urdu | 204,832 | 19% |
| Arabic | 188,781 | 17% |
| English | 168,989 | 15% |
| Hindi | 123,424 | 11% |
| Bangla | 77,929 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Khalid 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 Swedish, Khalid (Khaled) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’odödlig’. Khalid ibn al-Walid var en känd arabisk fältherre (592–642). En känd nutida namnbärare är den algeriske raï-artisten Khaled Hadj Ibrahim (f. 1960).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, immortal, eternal. ag., sic aasloa
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, Khalkidhiki [Chalcldice]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, king of Saudi Arabia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Khalkha l\/longol
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1909 | 1 |
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1914 | 2 |
| 1916 | 1 |
| 1917 | 1 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1920 | 3 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 3 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1933 | 7 |
| 1934 | 7 |
| 1935 | 7 |
| 1936 | 7 |
| 1937 | 8 |
| 1938 | 10 |
| 1939 | 11 |
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1942 | 22 |
| 1943 | 14 |
| 1944 | 33 |
| 1945 | 28 |
| 1946 | 33 |
| 1947 | 30 |
| 1948 | 54 |
| 1949 | 56 |
| 1950 | 40 |
| 1951 | 49 |
| 1952 | 91 |
| 1953 | 58 |
| 1954 | 121 |
| 1955 | 79 |
| 1956 | 114 |
| 1957 | 140 |
| 1958 | 119 |
| 1959 | 225 |
| 1960 | 162 |
| 1961 | 178 |
| 1962 | 275 |
| 1963 | 242 |
| 1964 | 372 |
| 1965 | 281 |
| 1966 | 361 |
| 1967 | 384 |
| 1968 | 389 |
| 1969 | 494 |
| 1970 | 550 |
| 1971 | 477 |
| 1972 | 651 |
| 1973 | 624 |
| 1974 | 634 |
| 1975 | 686 |
| 1976 | 849 |
| 1977 | 737 |
| 1978 | 713 |
| 1979 | 688 |
| 1980 | 752 |
| 1981 | 829 |
| 1982 | 1,107 |
| 1983 | 1,045 |
| 1984 | 1,210 |
| 1985 | 1,042 |
| 1986 | 1,034 |
| 1987 | 1,045 |
| 1988 | 1,006 |
| 1989 | 1,011 |
| 1990 | 1,015 |
| 1991 | 1,119 |
| 1992 | 1,136 |
| 1993 | 1,223 |
| 1994 | 933 |
| 1995 | 778 |
| 1996 | 379 |
| 1997 | 379 |
| 1998 | 266 |
| 1999 | 27 |
| 2007 | 1 |
| 2008 | 42 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 17 |
| 2014 | 99 |
| 2015 | 61 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 90 years between 1909–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Khalid ibn al-Walidb. 592SAArab Muslim military general (d. 642)
- Khalid bin Abdul Azizb. 1911SAKing of Saudi Arabia (1911-1982)
- Khaled Asaadb. 1932SYnot in their usual nameSyrian archeologist
- Khaled Mashalb. 1956PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammedb. 1965PKPakistani militant who was a member of al-Qaeda
- Khaled Hosseinib. 1965USnot in their usual nameAfghan novelist
- Khaled El Nabawyb. 1966EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor
- Khalid Abdallab. 1980GBBritish actor
- Khalid Boulahrouzb. 1981NLDutch association football player (born 1981)
- Khalidb. 1998USAmerican singer (born 1998)
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 102 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,279 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.4K | #569 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8K | #301 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.7K | #6,902 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 4.3K | #710 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,531 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.8K | #861 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 2.3K | #972 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.8K | #3,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,375 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.5K | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.3K | #1,805 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 750 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Khalid?
- We estimate roughly 28 thousand people bear Khalid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Khalid have the most bearers?
- Khalid is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled khaled.
- How common is Khalid compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Khalid is the 90th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Khalid a male or female name?
- Khalid 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 Khalid mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Undying’, ‘eternal’.
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About this data
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, “Khalid” — the 90th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.