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Takia vs Takoda

American parents have registered 1,962 Takias since 1880, against 1,919 Takodas. But in 2025 it was Takoda that was commoner, 44 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Takia against Takoda, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Takia Takoda

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 52 years in which either name was published, Takoda for 29 years and Takia for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Takia Takoda
Total US births 1,9621,919
Most in one year 86104
Babies in 2025 under 544
Estimated living today 1,9001,900
Median age today 3416
Peak year 19971998
Best rank 1,757th girls1,189th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,833rd
First recorded 19741993
Girls / boys 1,962 / 0129 / 1,790

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 Takias alive today are over 34; half the Takodas are over 16. That is 18 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Takia Takoda
England and Wales 64

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Takia and Takoda.