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Khadija vs Khaza

American parents have registered 5,271 Khadijas since 1880, against 1,970 Khazas. Khadija is still ahead, with 258 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khadija against Khaza, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khadija Khaza

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 57 years and Khaza for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Khadija Khaza
Total US births 5,2711,970
Most in one year 258337
Babies in 2025 258179
Estimated living today 5,2002,000
Median age today 133
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 980th girls802nd boys
Rank in 2025 980th1,196th
First recorded 19652014
Girls / boys 5,271 / 0165 / 1,805

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 Khadijas alive today are over 13; half the Khazas are over 3. That is 10 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.

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