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Khaidyn vs Khari

American parents have registered 6,720 Kharis since 1880, against 155 Khaidyns. Khari is still ahead, with 167 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khaidyn Khari

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

Khari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1971 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Khaidyn had 28 and Khari had 67.

Side by side

  Khaidyn Khari
Total US births 1556,720
Most in one year 28554
Babies in 2025 under 5167
Estimated living today 1506,600
Median age today 128
Peak year 20132020
Best rank 3,661st boys677th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,529th
First recorded 20101971
Girls / boys 0 / 1551,954 / 4,766

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 Kharis are over 8. That is 4 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 Khari.