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Khaidyn vs Khaleesi

American parents have registered 5,537 Khaleesis since 1880, against 155 Khaidyns. Khaleesi is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khaidyn against Khaleesi, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khaidyn Khaleesi

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 16 years in which either name was published, Khaleesi for 15 years and Khaidyn for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Khaidyn Khaleesi
Total US births 1555,537
Most in one year 28565
Babies in 2025 under 5410
Estimated living today 1505,500
Median age today 126
Peak year 20132018
Best rank 3,661st boys547th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked689th
First recorded 20102011
Girls / boys 0 / 1555,537 / 0

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 Khaidyns alive today are over 12; half the Khaleesis are over 6. That is 6 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: Khaidyn and Khaleesi.