Ikhlas
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ikh-LAHS
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Ikhlas is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “sincerity, purity of faith”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies) and 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Ikhlas mean?
Arabic
“sincerity, purity of faith”
Al-Ikhlas, 'Sincerity', is the 112th surah of the Quran, declaring the oneness of God.
Is Ikhlas a girl's or a boy's name?
Ikhlas is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK and 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ikhlas in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 33% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Ikhlas, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 15 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ikhlas in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Ikhlas or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Ikhlas 9
- Ikhlaas 3
In 2023, 82% of the babies named Ikhlas in the UK were girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Ikhlas in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 14 | #2,070 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 15 | #2,011 |
| 2016 | 11 | #2,510 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 11 | #2,462 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 10 | #2,478 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
How popular is Ikhlas in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 20% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Ikhlas, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,646th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had fewer girls named Ikhlas than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Ikhlas in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ikhlas in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,646 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,615 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,515 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,795 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
Names like Ikhlas
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Hafsa, Ayah, Nusaybah, Rehmat, Ayra, Abeeha, Hiba, Rahma, Izzah, Safaa
Other spellings of Ikhlas
Ikhlaas
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Ikhlas: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ikhlas, updated 20 October 2026.