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Khadija vs Khanh

American parents have registered 5,271 Khadijas since 1880, against 714 Khanhs. Khadija is still ahead, with 258 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khadija Khanh

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 61 years in which either name was published, Khadija for 58 years and Khanh for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Khadija Khanh
Total US births 5,271714
Most in one year 25844
Babies in 2025 258under 5
Estimated living today 5,200690
Median age today 1334
Peak year 20251982
Best rank 980th girls1,850th boys
Rank in 2025 980thunranked
First recorded 19651976
Girls / boys 5,271 / 0299 / 415

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 Khanhs alive today are over 34; half the Khadijas are over 13. That is 21 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 Khadija Khanh
France 10,73055
England and Wales 6,28811

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: Khadija and Khanh.