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Khari vs Khaza

American parents have registered 6,720 Kharis since 1880, against 1,970 Khazas. But in 2025 it was Khaza that was commoner, 179 babies to 167.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khari Khaza

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 54 years in which either name was published, Khari for 52 years and Khaza for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Khari Khaza
Total US births 6,7201,970
Most in one year 554337
Babies in 2025 167179
Estimated living today 6,6002,000
Median age today 83
Peak year 20202023
Best rank 677th boys802nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,529th1,196th
First recorded 19712014
Girls / boys 1,954 / 4,766165 / 1,805

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 Kharis alive today are over 8; half the Khazas are over 3. That is 5 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: Khari and Khaza.