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Khadijah vs Khaidyn

American parents have registered 7,603 Khadijahs since 1880, against 155 Khaidyns. Khadijah is still ahead, with 151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khadijah against Khaidyn, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khadijah Khaidyn

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

Khadijah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Khadijah had 95 and Khaidyn had 25.

Side by side

  Khadijah Khaidyn
Total US births 7,603155
Most in one year 1,62228
Babies in 2025 151under 5
Estimated living today 7,500150
Median age today 3012
Peak year 19942013
Best rank 184th girls3,661st boys
Rank in 2025 1,427thunranked
First recorded 19622010
Girls / boys 7,596 / 70 / 155

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 Khadijahs alive today are over 30; half the Khaidyns are over 12. That is 18 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: Khadijah and Khaidyn.