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Kaziah vs Kazuko

American parents have registered 660 Kaziahs since 1880, against 398 Kazukos. Kaziah is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaziah against Kazuko, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaziah Kazuko

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 56 years in which either name was published, Kaziah for 29 years and Kazuko for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kaziah Kazuko
Total US births 660398
Most in one year 6663
Babies in 2025 66under 5
Estimated living today 66040
Median age today 990
Peak year 20251927
Best rank 2,822nd girls955th girls
Rank in 2025 2,822ndunranked
First recorded 19951915
Girls / boys 581 / 79398 / 0

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 Kazukos alive today are over 90; half the Kaziahs are over 9. That is 81 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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