Given name & surname · also Turkish
Halid
“immortal”
Halid is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Halid goes back to Arabic خَالِد, meaning “immortal.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Halid comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish خالد (Hâlid), from Arabic خَالِد (“immortal”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Halid through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 55
- 55 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,484 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,484 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 171 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Halid’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Halid
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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