Khalyla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kuh-LEE-luh
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #4,986 for girls
Khalyla is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “close friend”. In 2025 it ranked 4,986th for girls in the US (26 babies).
What does Khalyla mean?
Arabic: variant of Khalila, feminine of Khalil
“close friend”
Is Khalyla a girl's or a boy's name?
Khalyla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 26 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khalyla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,986among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 26about 1 in 62,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 143% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 26 girls in the US were named Khalyla, making it the 4,986th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2024, with 46 girls. It first appears in the records in 2018.
2025 had fewer girls named Khalyla than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Khalyla in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Khalyla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,395 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,761 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,701 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,603 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
Names like Khalyla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Zahara Abeeha Fatiha Zhamira Rahma Amoura Zamira Safiya Hafsa Khadija Rumaysa
Names related to Khalyla
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra
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, “Khalyla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khalyla, updated 20 October 2026.