Kizzy
Kizzy was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 2,359 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,250 Americans named Kizzy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 47 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kizzy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kizzy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kizzy is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
From a pet form of Kezia. Explained as a Mandinka name by Alex Haley in Roots (1976).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kizzy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,422, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,124 babies in 1977, the peak
Kizzy peaked in 1977, when 1,124 babies were given it (1,117 girls, #223 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #14,422 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,338 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,919 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,656 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,435 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,617 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,302 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,530 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,116 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,721 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #15,168 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,685 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,716 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,292 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,511 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,502 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,171 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,796 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,438 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,629 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,542 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,241 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,817 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,129 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 84 | #1,451 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 119 | #1,145 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 269 | #648 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 456 | #439 | 0.30 |
| 1977 | 1,117 | #223 | 0.73 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kizzy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kizzy has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kizzy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kizzy, and how old are they?
2,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,359 Americans ever recorded as Kizzy. The median Kizzy alive today is 48 years old; half are between 47 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,983 people named Kizzy (1,976 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,880 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 263 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 70 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 43 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kizzy born?
The states with the most babies named Kizzy are Louisiana, New York and Georgia, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 225 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| New York | 209 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 148 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Florida | 132 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 129 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 128 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Illinois | 119 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 98 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 85 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 76 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Kizzy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kizzy is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1977 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kizzy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,244 babies since 1880, Kizzy is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 none of their 21 babies recorded by SSA was a Kizzy (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kizzy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kizzy and names like it
- Compare Kizzy and KizzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKizzy peaked in 1977.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kizzy since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Kizzy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Kizzy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kizzy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.