Khalid

Where Khalid comes from

From Arabic خَالِد (ḵālid, “immortal; glorious; eternal”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Khalid
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #3,640 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2001
    Peak, #714
    246 babies named Khalid — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

No widely known Khalid turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.