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Khoi vs Khori

American parents have registered 855 Khoris since 1880, against 771 Khois. But in 2025 it was Khoi that was commoner, 40 babies to 30.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Khoi 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 45 years in which either name was published, Khoi for 27 years and Khori for 18 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Khoi Khori
Total US births 771855
Most in one year 4074
Babies in 2025 4030
Estimated living today 760850
Median age today 148
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 3,379th boys2,432nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,379th5,238th
First recorded 19791991
Girls / boys 56 / 715702 / 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 Khois alive today are over 14; half the Khoris are over 8. That is 6 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: Khoi and Khori.