Cozetta vs Cozette

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Cozetta Cozette

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 109 years in which either name was published, Cozette for 91 years and Cozetta for 18 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.

• 1919–1932 Cozette ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1933–1935 Cozetta ahead
• 1939–2025 Cozette ahead, apart from 3 short spells

19 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Cozettas alive today are over 70; half the Cozettes are over 36. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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