Khayri

Locally spelled Khayrī in AE United Arab Emirates.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Khayri is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Tunisia

  Also written Khayrī, Kháýrì, Khåÿrī, Khàyri

• Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Tunisia

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Khayrī, Khàyri

• Russian given name13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Хайри, Хаири, Khairy, Хаирй, Hairi

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Khayrī

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Khayri is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Arabic, benevolent, charitable

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Khairi al-Hindawib. 1885IQnot in their usual nameIraqi poet
• Khayri Hammadb. 1913JOPalestinian journalist, writer and translator
• Khayrī ʻUmarīb. 1925IQjudge
• Khayri al-Daminb. 1936IQIraqi writer
• Khairy Shalabyb. 1938EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian writer (1938-2011)
• Khairi Mansourb. 1945JOnot in their usual nameJordanian writer
• Khairy Alzahabyb. 1946SYnot in their usual nameSyrian novelist and thinker
• Khayrī ʻAbd al-Jawādb. 1960EGEgyptian writer
• Khairy Jamaluddinb. 1976MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian politician
• Khairi Alqamb. 2001PSnot in their usual namePalestinian fedayeen

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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Khayri mean, and where does it come from?

benevolent, charitable, beneficent Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.

How do you pronounce Khayri?

A machine transcription gives /kaɪɹi/ (IPA) for English.

Is Khayri a male or female name?

Khayri is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).

In which country does Khayri have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 556 people named Khayri in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khayri.

How common is the name Khayri?

In the United States, the national register counted 223 people named Khayri in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

How common is Khayri compared with other names?

In Libya, Khayri is the 926th most common given name of 8,449 given names recorded there.