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Updated August 7, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Arabic : Immortal

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Khalid

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic khālid ‘eternity’, ‘eternal’, ‘remaining’. Khālid ibn-al-Walīd (d. 642) was the Muslim military leader who brought about the defeat of the Byzantine Empire and its expulsion from Syria. The Prophet Muhammad called him Sayf-ullah ‘sword of Allah’.

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