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Khaizer vs Khari

American parents have registered 6,720 Kharis since 1880, against 31 Khaizers. Khari is still ahead, with 167 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khaizer 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 2024, when Khaizer had 6 and Khari had 241.

Side by side

  Khaizer Khari
Total US births 316,720
Most in one year 12554
Babies in 2025 under 5167
Estimated living today 306,600
Median age today 38
Peak year 20212020
Best rank 6,698th boys677th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,529th
First recorded 20211971
Girls / boys 0 / 311,954 / 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 Kharis alive today are over 8; half the Khaizers are over 3. That is 5 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: Khaizer and Khari.