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Khoa vs Khori

American parents have registered 855 Khoris since 1880, against 822 Khoas. Khori is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khoa against Khori, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khoa Khori

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 49 years in which either name was published, Khoa for 29 years and Khori for 20 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Khoa Khori
Total US births 822855
Most in one year 2974
Babies in 2025 2330
Estimated living today 800850
Median age today 258
Peak year 19852017
Best rank 1,975th boys2,432nd girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th5,238th
First recorded 19761991
Girls / boys 5 / 817702 / 153

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 Khoas alive today are over 25; half the Khoris are over 8. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Khoa and Khori.