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Khadijah vs Khamari

American parents have registered 7,603 Khadijahs since 1880, against 3,087 Khamaris. But in 2025 it was Khamari that was commoner, 163 babies to 151.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khadijah Khamari

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 64 years in which either name was published, Khadijah for 49 years and Khamari for 15 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Khadijah Khamari
Total US births 7,6033,087
Most in one year 1,622185
Babies in 2025 151163
Estimated living today 7,5003,100
Median age today 3010
Peak year 19942022
Best rank 184th girls1,254th boys
Rank in 2025 1,427th1,443rd
First recorded 19621995
Girls / boys 7,596 / 7642 / 2,445

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 Khamaris are over 10. That is 20 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Khadijah Khamari
England and Wales 4,97465

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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