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Takeem vs Takisha

American parents have registered 2,058 Takishas since 1880, against 62 Takeems. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Takeem against Takisha, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Takeem Takisha

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 34 years in which either name was published, Takisha for 32 years and Takeem for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Takeem Takisha
Total US births 622,058
Most in one year 15200
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 602,000
Median age today 3046
Peak year 19901977
Best rank 3,779th boys758th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19901970
Girls / boys 0 / 622,058 / 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 Takishas alive today are over 46; half the Takeems are over 30. That is 16 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: Takeem and Takisha.