Khalisah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KHAH-li-sa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Khalisah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “pure, sincere”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Khalisah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Khalisa
“pure, sincere”
From Arabic khalisa 'pure, unmixed, sincere'.
Is Khalisah a girl's or a boy's name?
Khalisah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khalisah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 54% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Khalisah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 13 girls.
Half of all the girls named Khalisah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were given Khalisah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,226, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Khalisa 7
- Khalisah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Khalisah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 13 | #1,722 |
| 2003 | 6 | #2,877 |
| 2002 | 8 | #2,231 |
| 2001 | 9 | #1,974 |
| 2000 | 12 | #1,593 |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,912 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
Names like Khalisah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Sumayyah, Farah, Umaymah, Umamah, Aakifah, Hibah, Aaminah, Ruqayyah, Safa, Azeemah, Rufaidah
Other spellings of Khalisah
Khalisa
Names related to Khalisah
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, “Khalisah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khalisah, updated 20 October 2026.