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Takashi vs Takeisha

American parents have registered 1,050 Takeishas since 1880, against 862 Takashis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Takashi Takeisha

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 73 years in which either name was published, Takashi for 43 years and Takeisha for 30 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Takashi Takeisha
Total US births 8621,050
Most in one year 4263
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3601,000
Median age today 3441
Peak year 19251979
Best rank 1,073rd boys1,731st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19131970
Girls / boys 0 / 8621,050 / 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 Takeishas alive today are over 41; half the Takashis are over 34. That is 7 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: Takashi and Takeisha.