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Choyce vs Chozyn

American parents have registered 711 Chozyns since 1880, against 489 Choyces. Chozyn is still ahead, with 307 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Choyce against Chozyn, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Choyce 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

Of the 21 years in which either name was published, Choyce for 18 years and Chozyn for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Choyce Chozyn
Total US births 489711
Most in one year 73307
Babies in 2025 65307
Estimated living today 480710
Median age today 41
Peak year 20212025
Best rank 3,297th girls1,018th boys
Rank in 2025 5,722nd1,018th
First recorded 19302018
Girls / boys 262 / 227225 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Choyces alive today are over 4; half the Chozyns are over 1. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Choyce and Chozyn.