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Khairi vs Khaleesi

American parents have registered 5,537 Khaleesis since 1880, against 526 Khairis. Khaleesi is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khairi 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 35 years in which either name was published, Khairi for 21 years and Khaleesi for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Khairi Khaleesi
Total US births 5265,537
Most in one year 34565
Babies in 2025 10410
Estimated living today 5205,500
Median age today 146
Peak year 20112018
Best rank 3,235th boys547th girls
Rank in 2025 7,679th689th
First recorded 19902011
Girls / boys 10 / 5165,537 / 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 Khairis alive today are over 14; half the Khaleesis are over 6. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Khairi Khaleesi
England and Wales 17617

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: Khairi and Khaleesi.