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Takoda vs Takumi

American parents have registered 1,919 Takodas since 1880, against 504 Takumis. Takoda is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Takoda against Takumi, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Takoda 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 39 years in which either name was published, Takoda for 31 years and Takumi for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Takoda Takumi
Total US births 1,919504
Most in one year 10425
Babies in 2025 449
Estimated living today 1,900490
Median age today 1618
Peak year 19982007
Best rank 1,189th boys4,011th boys
Rank in 2025 2,833rd8,243rd
First recorded 19931920
Girls / boys 129 / 1,7900 / 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 Takumis alive today are over 18; half the Takodas are over 16. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Takoda Takumi
England and Wales 432

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Takoda and Takumi.