Khalilah - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ syll. (k)ha-li-lah, kh-alil-ah ] The girl name Khalilah is pronounced K-AELahLah- ^KEY. Khalilah has its origins in the Arabic language and it is also used largely in Arabic. Derived from the word khalil which is of the meaning 'bosom friend'. It represents the transferred use of the vocabulary word as a given name. Khalilah is the feminine form of the Arabic and English Khalil. Forms of the name include the English names Kaleela, Kalilah, Kaylee, and Kaylil. Other forms of Khalilah include the Arabic short form Kaela and the Arabic and English spelling variant Kalila.

Khalilah is uncommon as a baby girl name. At the modest height of its usage in 1976, 0.013% of baby girls were named Khalilah. It had a ranking of #718 then. The baby name has dropped out of favor since then, and is used only on a very light scale today. In 2008, within the family of girl names directly related to Khalilah, the English Kaylee was the most regularly used.

Baby names that sound like Khalilah include the Arabic and English Kalila, the English Kalilah, the English Kaelea, the Hawaiian Kalala, the Hawaiian Kalea, the English Kaleela, the Hawaiian Kalia, the Hawaiian Kalola, the name Kaluwa, the English Kaylea, the English Kayleah, the English Kaylia, the English Keallie, the English Keally, the Yiddish Kelila, the Yiddish Kelilah, the English Kellea, the English Kellia, the Yiddish Kelula, and the English Keyla.

---

Name Popularity Trend + Variant Popularity ChartVariant Popularity Trend + Variant Popularity ChartSound-Like Popularity Trend + Sound-Like Comparison Chart