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Khaleesi vs Kharma

American parents have registered 5,537 Khaleesis since 1880, against 528 Kharmas. Khaleesi is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khaleesi Kharma

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 28 years in which either name was published, Kharma for 14 years and Khaleesi for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Khaleesi Kharma
Total US births 5,537528
Most in one year 56543
Babies in 2025 4107
Estimated living today 5,500520
Median age today 615
Peak year 20182008
Best rank 547th girls3,710th girls
Rank in 2025 689th11,932nd
First recorded 20111998
Girls / boys 5,537 / 0528 / 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 Kharmas alive today are over 15; half the Khaleesis are over 6. That is 9 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: Khaleesi and Kharma.