Hâlil
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hâlil is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic خَلِيل (ḵalīl, “friend”).
- TRTürkiye1 in 361(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 527
- SYSyria≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hâlil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #418 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 361 (inferred from the name graph)
227,081 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Halil in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, US United States and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Arabic خَلِيل (ḵalīl, “friend”).
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hâlil counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #19 | 227,081 | 1 in 361 | 227K | Halil | 164 |
| SY Syria | #61 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Halil | 12 |
| US United States | — | 17,176as Khalil | 1 in 19K | 17K | Halil | 184 |
| AF Afghanistan | #973 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Halil | 4 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 650 | 4.5K | — | 8 |
| CY Cyprus | #23 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 527 | — | Halil | 27 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,212 | 1 in 2.5K | 1.2K | — | — |
227,081 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hâlil mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic خَلِيل (ḵalīl, “friend”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 1 other source.
- Is Hâlil a male or female name?
- Hâlil is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hâlil have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 227 thousand people named Hâlil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled halil.
- Where is Hâlil most common?
- Hâlil is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 361 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hâlil?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 227,081 people named Hâlil in 2025, about 1 in 361 residents.
- How common is Hâlil compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Hâlil is the 19th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hâlil?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A2lilThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hâlil” — the 19th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.