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Littie vs Litzy

American parents have registered 7,234 Litzys since 1880, against 623 Litties. Litzy is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Littie against Litzy, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Littie Litzy

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 92 years in which either name was published, Littie for 65 years and Litzy for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Littie Litzy
Total US births 6237,234
Most in one year 20810
Babies in 2025 under 568
Estimated living today 807,200
Median age today 8019
Peak year 19292005
Best rank 1,825th girls388th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,564th
First recorded 18801999
Girls / boys 623 / 07,228 / 6

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 Litties alive today are over 80; half the Litzys are over 19. That is 61 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: Littie and Litzy.