Khalifah
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: caliph
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəɫifə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Khalifah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 13M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13M (inferred from the name graph)
3 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of caliph.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Khalifah is read(measured from records)
Khalifah is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Khalifah in Arabic.
- Indonesian35%
caliph
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
Alternative form of caliph.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khalifah 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.
3 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #268,511 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Khalifah come from?
- Alternative form of caliph. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Khalifah?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɫifə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Khalifah mean?
- In Indonesian, caliph
- In which country does Khalifah have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3 people named Khalifah, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Khalifah most common?
- Khalifah is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Khalifah?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Khalifah in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about Khalifah?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khalifahThe 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, “Khalifah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.