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Kitana vs Kitzie

American parents have registered 1,669 Kitanas since 1880, against 27 Kitzies. Kitana is still ahead, with 42 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kitana against Kitzie, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kitana Kitzie

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 33 years in which either name was published, Kitana for 32 years and Kitzie for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kitana Kitzie
Total US births 1,66927
Most in one year 8727
Babies in 2025 42under 5
Estimated living today 1,70030
Median age today 1446
Peak year 19961979
Best rank 1,722nd girls3,078th girls
Rank in 2025 3,577thunranked
First recorded 19941979
Girls / boys 1,669 / 027 / 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 Kitzies alive today are over 46; half the Kitanas are over 14. That is 32 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: Kitana and Kitzie.