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Khari vs Kharter

American parents have registered 6,720 Kharis since 1880, against 636 Kharters. Khari is still ahead, with 167 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khari Kharter

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 2015, when Khari had 149 and Kharter had 85.

Side by side

  Khari Kharter
Total US births 6,720636
Most in one year 55485
Babies in 2025 16730
Estimated living today 6,600630
Median age today 88
Peak year 20202015
Best rank 677th boys1,955th boys
Rank in 2025 1,529th3,658th
First recorded 19712010
Girls / boys 1,954 / 4,766101 / 535

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Khari and Kharter.