Across the world, Халеф (Khalef 
, Халеф 
) is quite a rare principally masculine, but scarcely girly forename. The given name Халеф is habitual in Algeria, where it is quite a rare predominantly masculine, but very infrequently feminine name, Tanzania, where it is a rare male name, and Kuwait. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in Algeria, Tanzania, and Pakistan. Likewise, Халеф is the last name as well as the forename.