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Takisha vs Takyra

American parents have registered 2,058 Takishas since 1880, against 560 Takyras. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Takisha against Takyra, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Takisha Takyra

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 46 years in which either name was published, Takisha for 26 years and Takyra for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Takisha Takyra
Total US births 2,058560
Most in one year 20043
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,000550
Median age today 4622
Peak year 19772005
Best rank 758th girls3,461st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19701983
Girls / boys 2,058 / 0560 / 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 Takishas alive today are over 46; half the Takyras are over 22. That is 24 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: Takisha and Takyra.