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Kazleigh vs Kazuo

American parents have registered 762 Kazuos since 1880, against 65 Kazleighs. But in 2025 it was Kazleigh that was commoner, 8 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kazleigh against Kazuo, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kazleigh Kazuo

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 40 years in which either name was published, Kazuo for 34 years and Kazleigh for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kazleigh Kazuo
Total US births 65762
Most in one year 1957
Babies in 2025 85
Estimated living today 7050
Median age today 318
Peak year 20201921
Best rank 6,083rd girls931st boys
Rank in 2025 10,917th12,008th
First recorded 20201911
Girls / boys 65 / 00 / 762

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 Kazuos alive today are over 18; half the Kazleighs are over 3. That is 15 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: Kazleigh and Kazuo.