Calil
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- kha-LEEL
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Calil is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “friend”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Calil mean?
Arabic: spelling of Khalil; from Arabic khalil
“friend”
Khalil Allah, Friend of God, is a title of Abraham; Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, bore a spelling of the name.
Meaning borrowed from Khalil. More on Wiktionary.
Is Calil a girl's or a boy's name?
Calil is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Calil in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,906th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 210,000 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, 8 boys in the US were named Calil, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the boys named Calil in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 887 boys in the US were given Calil or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #379, up from #8,906 for this spelling alone.
Calil in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,572 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,693 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,899 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,137 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,048 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,202 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,837 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
Names like Calil
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Gael, Axel, Cairo, Colson, Callum, Cohen, Cooper, Colter, Hudson, Callan, Beckett, Campbell
Other spellings of Calil
Names related to Calil
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, “Calil: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/calil, updated 20 October 2026.