Kalid
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəʎɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kalid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 223as Khalid(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 237as Khalid
- KWKuwait≈1 in 263as Khaled
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 Kalid 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #967 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 223 (inferred from the name graph)
≈330,000 named Khalid, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est., as Khalid
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Khaled in EG Egypt, SY Syria, KW Kuwait and 1 more and Khalid in US United States, PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia and 1 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #15 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 707 | listed | Khalid | 156 |
| EG Egypt | #22 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 321 | listed | Khaled | 217 |
| MA Morocco | #12 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | — | Khalid | 144 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #10 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 237 | — | Khalid | 216 |
| DZ Algeria | #7 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 384 | — | Khaled | 100 |
| SY Syria | #15 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 372 | — | Khaled | 88 |
| KW Kuwait | #15 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | — | Khaled | 145 |
| US United States | — | 11,363as Khalid | 1 in 29K | 11K | Khalid | 385 |
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: the wgnd-eg-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Khalid ibn al-Walidb. 592SAnot in their usual nameArab Muslim military general (d. 642)
- Khalid bin Abdul Azizb. 1911SAnot in their usual nameKing of Saudi Arabia (1911-1982)
- Khaled Asaadb. 1932SYSyrian archeologist
- Khaled Mashalb. 1956PSPalestinian politician
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammedb. 1965PKnot in their usual namePakistani militant who was a member of al-Qaeda
- Khaled Hosseinib. 1965USAfghan novelist
- Khaled El Nabawyb. 1966EGEgyptian actor
- Khalid Abdallab. 1980GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
- Khalid Boulahrouzb. 1981NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 1981)
- Khalidb. 1998USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1998)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 384 | #24,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #24,570 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 7 | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kalid?
- A machine transcription gives /kəʎɪd/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kalid a male or female name?
- Kalid 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 Kalid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 330 thousand people named Khalid in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kalid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,363 people named Khalid in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Kalid compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Kalid is the 15th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kalid?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalidThe 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, “Kalid” — the 15th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.