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Khadijah vs Khaizer

American parents have registered 7,603 Khadijahs since 1880, against 31 Khaizers. Khadijah is still ahead, with 151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khadijah against Khaizer, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khadijah Khaizer

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

Khadijah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Khadijah had 121 and Khaizer had 12.

Side by side

  Khadijah Khaizer
Total US births 7,60331
Most in one year 1,62212
Babies in 2025 151under 5
Estimated living today 7,50030
Median age today 303
Peak year 19942021
Best rank 184th girls6,698th boys
Rank in 2025 1,427thunranked
First recorded 19622021
Girls / boys 7,596 / 70 / 31

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 Khadijahs alive today are over 30; half the Khaizers are over 3. That is 27 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: Khadijah and Khaizer.