Khalifah
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- kha-LEE-fa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,747 for boys
Khalifah is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “successor”. In 2025 it ranked 3,747th for boys in the UK (5 babies).
What does Khalifah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Khalifa; from Arabic khalifa
“successor”
Arabic for successor; it is the source of caliph, the title of the leaders who succeeded the Prophet Muhammad.
Meaning borrowed from Khalifa.
Is Khalifah a girl's or a boy's name?
Khalifah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khalifah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,747th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 60,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 45% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the UK were named Khalifah, making it the 3,747th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,108th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 7 boys.
Half of all the boys named Khalifah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 18 boys in the UK were given Khalifah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,326, up from #3,747 for this spelling alone.
- Khalifa 13
- Khalifah 5
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales.
Khalifah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #3,747 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,003 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 7 | #2,922 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,108 |
| 2019 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #3,608 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,214 |
| 2015 | 5 | #3,527 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,096 |
Names like Khalifah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Abdullah, Mustafa, Zayd, Musa, Huzaifa, Zayaan, Umar, Ibrahim, Amir, Zayan, Zayyan
Other spellings of Khalifah
Names related to Khalifah
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Khalifah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khalifah, updated 20 October 2026.