Khalil
Only about 140 men in Poland carry it, and no boys got it last year: most Poles have never met one. It comes from a Hebrew word for "friend".
Khalil Pronunciation
Khalil is pronounced KKHAH-leel (/ˈkxalil/).
What Khalil means
Where Khalil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Khalil reaches Polish birth records through Arabic, where it long stood as a word for a friend. The root goes back to Hebrew, and the sense of friendship travelled with it into both languages.
Arabic tradition gave the name its deepest claim. Abraham is called Khalil Allah, the friend of God, and the title fixed the name to a single idea.
One bearer carried it far beyond the Middle East. Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese poet behind The Prophet, put it on shelves in many countries. His full name was Gibran Khalil Gibran.
On a Polish class register, Khalil now sits among the Kacpers and Antonis. The teacher reads it once and moves on. The boy who answers holds a name that means, in plain Polish, przyjaciel: friend.
How many people are named Khalil
1 in 150325 men in Poland is named Khalil. 142 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2748 among male names.
Khalil as a middle name
Khalil is a first name for 142 men in Poland and a middle name for another 28, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1602nd, between Kelvin (28) and Mete (28).
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#1600 Joël28
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#1601 Kelvin28
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#1602 Khalil28
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#1603 Mete28
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#1604 Moritz28