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Choya vs Chozyn

American parents have registered 711 Chozyns since 1880, against 89 Choyas. Chozyn is still ahead, with 307 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Choya against Chozyn, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Choya Chozyn

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 23 years in which either name was published, Choya for 15 years and Chozyn for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Choya Chozyn
Total US births 89711
Most in one year 11307
Babies in 2025 under 5307
Estimated living today 70710
Median age today 501
Peak year 19792025
Best rank 3,569th boys1,018th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,018th
First recorded 19512018
Girls / boys 16 / 73225 / 486

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 Choyas alive today are over 50; half the Chozyns are over 1. That is 49 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: Choya and Chozyn.