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Takeisha vs Takumi

American parents have registered 1,050 Takeishas since 1880, against 504 Takumis. But in 2025 it was Takumi that was commoner, 9 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Takeisha Takumi

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 57 years in which either name was published, Takumi for 30 years and Takeisha for 27 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Takeisha Takumi
Total US births 1,050504
Most in one year 6325
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 1,000490
Median age today 4118
Peak year 19792007
Best rank 1,731st girls4,011th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,243rd
First recorded 19701920
Girls / boys 1,050 / 00 / 504

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 Takeishas alive today are over 41; half the Takumis are over 18. That is 23 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: Takeisha and Takumi.