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Khamyri vs Khari

American parents have registered 6,720 Kharis since 1880, against 45 Khamyris. Khari is still ahead, with 167 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khamyri 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 2025, when Khamyri had 19 and Khari had 167.

Side by side

  Khamyri Khari
Total US births 456,720
Most in one year 26554
Babies in 2025 19167
Estimated living today 506,600
Median age today 18
Peak year 20242020
Best rank 5,021st girls677th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th1,529th
First recorded 20241971
Girls / boys 39 / 61,954 / 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 Khamyris are over 1. That is 7 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: Khamyri and Khari.