Khaza
Masculine
Khaza is given to both — 1,805 boys and 165 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Khaza is a short, open name — two syllables, a hard opening consonant, a soft landing — and it belongs to the family of English-language names that begin with Kh, alongside Khalil, Khari and Khadija. It arrived on American birth records only in the last dozen years or so, took a quick rise, and is now easing back a little. Almost everyone who carries it is still a child.
How old is the name Khaza?
Khaza first appears in US birth records in 2014 — 11 years ago. The typical Khaza is a kid of about 3 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,800 people named Khaza are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Khaza most popular?
Khaza peaked in 2023, reaching #802 nationally. Today it ranks #1196, 394 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Khaza
Some names come to us with a paper trail, and some arrive the way Khaza did — new on the record, concentrated along the Gulf and into Georgia, spoken before it was ever written down anywhere official. Its shape is easy to place even so: the Kh that opens Khalil and Khari, and the unstressed -a ending shared by Micah and Isaiah, two halves of American naming that meet in the middle of this word. It reads on the page as if it had been around for generations, which is part of why it caught on so quickly and traveled so far from where it started. The oldest Khazas alive are still young; whatever this name comes to mean in practice, they are the ones writing it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No meaning is established for Khaza. What is documented is where and when it appears: American birth records of the past decade or so, with its strongest showing in Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. The Kh- opening links it visually to a set of names that reached English through Arabic and through African American naming traditions, but no one has traced Khaza itself to a source word, and it would be a disservice to hand you an invented translation.
Pronouncing Khaza
KAH-zuh
The Kh is said as a plain K in American English; the stress falls on the first syllable. KAY-zuh is also heard, so it is worth saying your preferred version out loud when you introduce the name.
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2014
- Most boys named
- 2023308 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #802reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −28.4%169 in 2025, from 236
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Khaza in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Louisiana, Georgia.
Khazas among us
people named Khaza are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 10,107 born in 2025 was named Khaza
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Deshaun test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Khaza's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deshaun climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deshaun's path sketches the road Khaza is walking now.
Khaza sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Khaza is headed
Khaza looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Khaza beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Khaza in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Short, two syllables, and phonetically regular — once someone hears it, they can say it, and once they see it spelled, they can read it.
- The Kh- opening is already familiar in American English from names like Khalil and Khari, so the spelling does not look like a puzzle.
- Rare enough that a child is very unlikely to share it with a classmate, without being a name people find unpronounceable.
- No entrenched nickname, which leaves the full name in everyday use rather than reduced by default.
- There is no agreed meaning. If the meaning question matters a great deal to you, this name will not answer it — and a child asked "what does your name mean?" will need a different kind of reply.
- Expect it to be written down as Kaza, Khazza or Kasa on forms and coffee cups. The correction is quick, but it will be a lifelong one.
- Its wave is very recent and regionally concentrated in the South, so the name may register as unfamiliar in other parts of the country — and there are, as yet, no adult namesakes to lean on.
- With no settled short form, family will invent one. That is worth thinking through in advance if you have strong feelings about which syllable survives.
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Frequently asked
- How many Khazas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Khaza are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Khaza in 2025?
- Khaza ranks #1196 among US boy names in 2025, with 169 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Khaza?
- About 1 in every 10,107 US boys born in 2025 was named Khaza — 169 in all.
- Will my child share the name Khaza with classmates?
- Khaza will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Khaza
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