Khairah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KHY-rah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,206 for girls
Khairah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “good, virtuous”. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies).
What does Khairah mean?
Arabic: variant of Khayra, feminine of khayr
“good, virtuous”
From khayr, the Arabic word for goodness and blessing, also seen in the name Khairunnisa.
Is Khairah a girl's or a boy's name?
Khairah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khairah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,206th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady much the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named Khairah, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th.
2025 had the most girls named Khairah of any year since it first appeared, in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Khairah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Khairah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #2,206 for this spelling alone.
- Khairah 13
- Khayrah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.
Khairah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #2,206 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 10 | #2,615 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
Names like Khairah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayah, Nusaybah, Zainab, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Ruqayyah, Izzah, Khadija, Sumayyah
Other spellings of Khairah
Khayrah
Names related to Khairah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Khairah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khairah, updated 20 October 2026.