Forename Khayr

Around the globe, Khayr (خير , Khayr , Хаир ) is quite a common largely masculine, but uncommonly female given name. The first name Khayr is characteristic of Libya, where it is quite a rare unisex name, Egypt, and Syria, where it is quite a rare dominantly male, but seldom feminine name. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in Northern Africa, particularly Egypt, Algeria, and Sudan. More prevalently, Khayr is the last name as well as the forename.

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Khayr

name Хайр, name خاير, name Хаыр, name Хаир, name خير, name Khâyr, name Khayr

VARIANT	COUNTRY
خير	Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Saudi Arabia
Khayr	Morocco, Somalia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Algeria
Хаир	Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

First names said to be same

Khâyr, Хайр, Хаыр, and خاير

Notable namesakes

	khayr al-din al-ramli Arab writer and scholar (b. 1585)
	khayr alla efendi (b. 1819)
	khayr al-dīn abū al-jabīn (b. 1924)
	khayr al-dīn‏ wānli (b. 1933)