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Kitt vs Kitzie

American parents have registered 596 Kitts since 1880, against 27 Kitzies. Kitt is still ahead, with 51 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kitt against Kitzie, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kitt 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 45 years in which either name was published, Kitt for 44 years and Kitzie for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kitt Kitzie
Total US births 59627
Most in one year 5327
Babies in 2025 51under 5
Estimated living today 56030
Median age today 846
Peak year 20251979
Best rank 4,758th girls3,078th girls
Rank in 2025 4,758thunranked
First recorded 19451979
Girls / boys 312 / 28427 / 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 Kitts are over 8. That is 38 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: Kitt and Kitzie.