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Kittie vs Kitzie

American parents have registered 2,467 Kitties since 1880, against 27 Kitzies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kittie against Kitzie, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kittie Kitzie

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 106 years in which either name was published, Kittie for 105 years and Kitzie for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kittie Kitzie
Total US births 2,46727
Most in one year 6327
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 62030
Median age today 6946
Peak year 18891979
Best rank 304th girls3,078th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801979
Girls / boys 2,467 / 027 / 0

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 Kitties alive today are over 69; half the Kitzies are over 46. That is 23 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: Kittie and Kitzie.