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Litzi vs Litzy

American parents have registered 7,234 Litzys since 1880, against 518 Litzis. Litzy is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Litzi against Litzy, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Litzi Litzy

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

Litzy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1999 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Litzi had 40 and Litzy had 292.

Side by side

  Litzi Litzy
Total US births 5187,234
Most in one year 88810
Babies in 2025 under 568
Estimated living today 5107,200
Median age today 2119
Peak year 20002005
Best rank 1,923rd girls388th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,564th
First recorded 19991999
Girls / boys 518 / 07,228 / 6

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 Litzis alive today are over 21; half the Litzys are over 19. That is 2 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: Litzi and Litzy.