Khepri
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- KEP-ree
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Khepri is a name, meaning “he who comes into being”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Khepri mean?
Ancient Egyptian, from kheper 'to come into being'
“he who comes into being”
Khepri was the Egyptian scarab-beetle god of the rising sun, pictured rolling the sun across the sky like a dung ball.
Is Khepri a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Khepri has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls and 12 boys in the US.
How popular is Khepri in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,799th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Khepri, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 2017. 7 girls were also named Khepri in 2025 (11,928th for girls).
Half of all the boys named Khepri in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Khepri in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
Names like Khepri
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Krishiv, Avyaan, Navi, Kavi, Santi, Javi, Ivaan, Shivansh, Akari, Aarav, Vihaan, Bodhi
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, “Khepri: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khepri, updated 20 October 2026.