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Chosen vs Chozyn

American parents have registered 2,794 Chosens since 1880, against 711 Chozyns. Chosen is still ahead, with 641 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Chosen against Chozyn, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Chosen Chozyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Chosen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2003 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Chosen had 641 and Chozyn had 307.

Side by side

  Chosen Chozyn
Total US births 2,794711
Most in one year 641307
Babies in 2025 641307
Estimated living today 2,800710
Median age today 21
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 555th boys1,018th boys
Rank in 2025 555th1,018th
First recorded 20032018
Girls / boys 546 / 2,248225 / 486

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Chosen and Chozyn.