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Kizzy

Girls' name

Cassia tree, through Kezia

Kizzy has been given to 2,359 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 1,117 recorded.

Babies named Kizzy, 2021

1 in 565,000

Kizzy over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kizzy: meaning, origin, and history

Cassia tree, through Kezia

Hebrew

What Kizzy means

Kizzy belongs to the name family reached through Kizzy → Kezia. Its meaning is “cassia tree”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From a pet form of Kezia. Explained as a Mandinka name by Alex Haley in Roots (1976).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Kizzy (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Kizzy is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kezia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,347 girls were recorded with the name Kizzy between 1977 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 1,117 in 1977; its best national rank was #223 in 1977.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Kizzy between 1977 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1977; its best national rank was #4,890 in 1977.

How common is Kizzy?

Kizzy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kizzy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kizzy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kizzys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kizzy was born before 1978 — so the typical Kizzy is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
78.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,347
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 78.5% of all recorded uses (1,842).

Is Kizzy rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (1,117)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#223
1977

Kizzy’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 1977, 1,117 girls were named Kizzy — about #223 that year — roughly 7.9× as many as in the surrounding years, before it settled back. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Kizzy

Kizzy is not the most common spelling — Kiley is, with 34.9% against Kizzy's 4.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kizzy is used

Across 1910–2025, Kizzy was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 73,173 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 12,500
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 16,667
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5Alabama1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kizzy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kizzy around the world

Where Kizzy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1987–2002
    #5,036
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1986–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kizzy

People whose public names include Kizzy, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kizzy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#223
1977
Peak year
1977
1,117 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
2,347
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,890
1977
Peak year
1977
7 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kizzy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LizzyMazzyKizzieIzzyOzzyKizziJazzyKizaKizmetKizzeyKiziahKizLitzzyKizzeKiziKezzyLakizzyBrezzyKizuwanda

Names with a curve like Kizzy

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kizzy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kizzy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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