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Khaleesi vs Kharson

American parents have registered 5,537 Khaleesis since 1880, against 134 Kharsons. Khaleesi is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khaleesi against Kharson, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khaleesi Kharson

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

Khaleesi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2011 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Khaleesi had 470 and Kharson had 18.

Side by side

  Khaleesi Kharson
Total US births 5,537134
Most in one year 56518
Babies in 2025 4107
Estimated living today 5,500130
Median age today 66
Peak year 20182017
Best rank 547th girls5,111th boys
Rank in 2025 689th9,714th
First recorded 20112014
Girls / boys 5,537 / 00 / 134

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.

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