Khaled
An Arabic name from the root kh-l-d, the idea of lasting without end: it carries the meaning eternal. In Poland it stays rare, given to a few hundred men in all, so most people have never met one.
Khaled Pronunciation
Khaled is pronounced KKHAH-let (/ˈkxalɛt/).
What Khaled means
Where Khaled comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Khaled comes from the Arabic root kh-l-d, which turns on the idea of remaining, of lasting without end. From that root grows the short meaning that follows the name everywhere: eternal, and in Polish wieczny, nieśmiertelny. A boy given this name is handed a word that Arabic reserves for things meant to outlast a single lifetime.
The most famous bearer is Khalid ibn al-Walid, the seventh-century commander who won the byname Sayf Allah, the Sword of God. History records his campaigns across Arabia and Syria. Much later the Algerian singer known simply as Khaled carried the name onto radios far from home, and his 1992 song "Didi" became a hit across Europe.
In Poland the name stays rare. A Khaled on a school class register, or on an official form at the urząd, reads at once as arriving from the Arabic world rather than the Polish calendar of saints. There is no Polish diminutive here, no cross-gender twin. Short. The meaning holds: eternal.
How many people are named Khaled
1 in 78768 men in Poland is named Khaled. 271 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1847 among male names.
Khaled's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Khaled as a middle name
Khaled is a first name for 271 men in Poland and a middle name for another 89, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 763rd, between Humberto (89) and Mehmet (89).
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