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Khiara vs Khiry

American parents have registered 1,171 Khirys since 1880, against 536 Khiaras. But in 2025 it was Khiara that was commoner, 15 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khiara against Khiry, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khiara Khiry

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 37 years in which either name was published, Khiry for 21 years and Khiara for 16 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Khiara Khiry
Total US births 5361,171
Most in one year 24251
Babies in 2025 158
Estimated living today 5301,100
Median age today 1633
Peak year 20191990
Best rank 5,306th girls648th boys
Rank in 2025 7,133rd8,910th
First recorded 19891989
Girls / boys 536 / 07 / 1,164

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 Khirys alive today are over 33; half the Khiaras are over 16. That is 17 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: Khiara and Khiry.