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Kaled

Gender
Boy
Say it
KHAH-led
Origin
Arabic
US rank, 2025
#5,207 for boys

Kaled is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “eternal, everlasting”. In 2025 it ranked 5,207th for boys in the US (18 babies).

What does Kaled mean?

Arabic: spelling of Khaled, itself a spelling of Khalid

“eternal, everlasting”

Spelling of Khalid; Khalid ibn al-Walid, called the Sword of God, was a celebrated early Muslim general.

Meaning borrowed from Khaled. More on Wiktionary.

Is Kaled a girl's or a boy's name?

Kaled is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kaled in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,207among boys
Babies in 2025
18about 1 in 95,000 boys
Five-year trend
Risingup 52% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 18 boys in the US were named Kaled, making it the 5,207th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 1975.

Half of all the boys named Kaled in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 367 boys in the US were given Kaled or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #684, up from #5,207 for this spelling alone.

1975Busiest: 25 in 20232025
Kaled in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202518#5,207
202418#5,237
202325#4,216
20228#8,983
202117#5,333
202011#7,029
201919#4,947
201810#7,613
20179#8,136
20165#12,180
201515#5,742
201416#5,481
201321#4,461
201212#6,620
201116#5,429
201016#5,475
200917#5,332
200811#7,182
200712#6,618
20068#8,726
200512#6,220
200410#6,970
20038#7,824
20026#9,385
20010–
20006#9,104
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19926#7,414
19910–
19905#8,108
19890–
19885#7,264
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19755#5,462

Names like Kaled

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kaled

Names related to Kaled

More Arabic names

Every Arabic name

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, “Kaled: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaled, updated 20 October 2026.