Kizzie
Feminine · “cassia”
The z in this spelling is standing in for a consonant Hebrew has and English does not. The original opens with a sound closer to a k and carries a ts in the middle; English has no single letter for it, chose z, and the result looks like a respelling when it is in fact an approximation of something the alphabet cannot hold.
How old is the name Kizzie?
Kizzie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Kizzie alive today was born around 1943, making them about 82 years old. About 900 people named Kizzie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kizzie most popular?
Kizzie peaked in 1880, reaching #466 nationally. See the whole 1880 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Qetsiah to Kizzie
The story of Kizzie
The name appears exactly once in scripture and this is the only common English form of it. Its bearer is one of three daughters born to a man at the end of a book about suffering, all three named — which is unusual — and all three given an inheritance among their brothers, which is more unusual still. The English form here is a nursery shortening of a name that occurs in a single verse, and it went into steady American use anyway, which says something about how a name can travel on almost nothing.
Meaning
cassia, a kind of bark
The Hebrew name is a spice — a bark related to cinnamon, used in the anointing oil described in Exodus. The sense is not disputed and the shortened English form carries it at one remove.
How the name formed
- Qetsiah
- Keziah
- Kizzie
Pronouncing Kizzie
KIZ-ee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The fuller name is said kuh-ZY-uh, which this short form gives no hint of.
Nicknames for Kizzie
Moderate
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1978153 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #466reached in 1880
- Change vs 2011
- 0.0%6 in 2022, from 6
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.
Kizzies among us
people named Kizzie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Kizzie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete and unusually specific.
- It is short, warm and completely easy on first hearing.
- It reaches back to a genuinely obscure scriptural name.
- Kizzy is equally common and the spelling gets queried.
- The fuller name is unrecognizable from this form.
- The generation that used it is now very old.
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- How many Kizzies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Kizzie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kizzie in 2025?
- Kizzie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Kizzie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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