Khalisa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KHAH-li-sa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Khalisa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “pure, sincere”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Khalisa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Khalisah, itself a spelling of Khalisa
“pure, sincere”
From Arabic khalisa 'pure, unmixed, sincere'.
Meaning borrowed from Khalisah.
Is Khalisa a girl's or a boy's name?
Khalisa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khalisa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Khalisa, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 9 girls.
2025 had more girls named Khalisa than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Khalisa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were given Khalisa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,226, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
- Khalisa 7
- Khalisah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Khalisa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
Names like Khalisa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Khadija, Aaliyah, Zainab, Hafsa, Amira, Abeeha, Hiba, Safiya, Rahma, Rumaysa, Sumayyah
Other spellings of Khalisa
Names related to Khalisa
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, 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, “Khalisa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khalisa, updated 20 October 2026.