Khayr
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KHAYR
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,859 for boys
Khayr is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “goodness, blessing”. In 2025 it ranked 5,859th for boys in the US (15 babies).
What does Khayr mean?
Arabic: Arabic word
“goodness, blessing”
Arabic for goodness or blessing, as in the greeting sabah al-khayr 'good morning'.
Is Khayr a girl's or a boy's name?
Khayr is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khayr in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,859among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 15about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Newly popularnew in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 15 boys in the US were named Khayr, making it the 5,859th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2023, with 23 boys. It first appears in the records in 2015.
Half of all the boys named Khayr in the US since 1880 were born between 2023 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Khayr in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,859 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,886 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,452 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
Names like Khayr
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zayd Zahir Khaza Saif Zubair Ahmir Muhammadali Azir Musab Zayaan Zayan Muhammadyusuf
Names related to Khayr
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, “Khayr: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khayr, updated 20 October 2026.