Meaning and Origin of: Khalid

Khalid is of Arabic origin and means "Immortal."

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Arabic : Immortal

Boy name variations

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’.