Kizzy
Feminine · “cassia”
Kizzy is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 2,347 girls against 12 boys since 1880.
Kizzy is a pet form of Keziah, one of the three daughters of Job — and Job's daughters are named in the text while his sons are not, which is unusual enough that commentators have argued about it for centuries.
How old is the name Kizzy?
Kizzy first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Kizzy alive today was born around 1978, making them about 47 years old. About 2,300 people named Kizzy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kizzy most popular?
Kizzy peaked in 1977, reaching #223 nationally. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
From qetsi'ah to Kizzy
The story of Kizzy
Keziah entered English use through the Reformation and was carried particularly by Puritan and later by African American families; Kizzy was its ordinary spoken form. The name reached a very wide audience in the mid-1970s through a family saga first published as a book and then broadcast as a television series watched by a large share of the American population, in which Kizzy is a central figure. The chart shows the name appearing and peaking within two years of that broadcast.
Meaning
cassia
Through Keziah, from the Hebrew qetsi'ah, the cassia tree — a relative of cinnamon whose bark was a valuable spice. Job's three daughters are named for a perfume, a spice and a cosmetic: Jemimah, Keziah and Keren-happuch.
How the name formed
- qetsi'ah
- Keziah
- Kizzy
Related forms: Ketzia · Kezia · Kizzie
Pronouncing Kizzy
KIZ-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Kizzy and Kizzie are said identically.
Nicknames for Kizzy
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
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 19771,117 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #223reached in 1977
- Change vs 2020
- 0.0%6 in 2021, 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.
Kizzy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ketzia in Hebrew — related form
- Kezia in English — related form
- Kizzie in English — spelling variant
Kizzys among us
people named Kizzy 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
Kizzy has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Keziah stands behind it with a documented biblical source and a concrete meaning.
- Short, bright and impossible to mispronounce in English.
- It is genuinely uncommon while being entirely traditional.
- The television association is strong for anyone of the right generation, and the story is a hard one.
- It is closely dated to the late 1970s in American records.
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- How many Kizzys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Kizzy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kizzy in 2025?
- Kizzy is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Kizzy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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