Cahlil
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- kah-LEEL
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Cahlil is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “close friend”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Cahlil mean?
Arabic: spelling of Kahlil, itself a variant of Khalil
“close friend”
The spelling used by Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese-American author of The Prophet; Arabic khalil means close friend.
Meaning borrowed from Kahlil. More on Wiktionary.
Is Cahlil a girl's or a boy's name?
Cahlil is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cahlil in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Cahlil, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,292nd. Its busiest year was 2015, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had fewer boys named Cahlil than any year since 2010.
Half of all the boys named Cahlil in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 56 boys in the US were given Cahlil or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,060, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
- Kahlil 50
- Cahlil 6
Cahlil in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,330 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,292 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,742 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,919 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,072 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,231 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,528 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,400 |
Names like Cahlil
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Callan, Kayden, Cannon, Raiden, Declan, Aiden, Ronan, Cassian, Finnegan, Brayden, Deacon, Cohen
Other spellings of Cahlil
Names related to Cahlil
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cahlil: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cahlil, updated 20 October 2026.