Kaizen
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #364 for boys in 2025, 895 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 895 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,039since 2004
Kaizen over time
Rank among boys' names. Kaizen has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #364 | 895 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #502 | 608 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #587 | 487 |
| 2022 | — | #902 | 257 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,218 | 158 | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,579 | 103 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | — | #1,901 | 78 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,154 | 63 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,477 | 51 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,328 | 56 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,805 | 42 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,189 | 34 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,741 | 15 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,102 | 18 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,067 | 18 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,094 | 11 | |
| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
| 2005 | — | #8,299 | 8 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kaizen! It came in at #9,948, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2006, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kaizen is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#58 · 1 in 214
- Mississippi#540 · 1 in 2,397
- Ohio#860 · 1 in 6,024
- Washington#973 · 1 in 6,680
- Tennessee#1,017 · 1 in 7,167
Best ever in a state: #24 in Hawaii, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #58 | 16 | 1 in 214 |
| Mississippi | #540 | 5 | 1 in 2,397 |
| Ohio | #860 | 9 | 1 in 6,024 |
| Washington | #973 | 5 | 1 in 6,680 |
| Tennessee | #1,017 | 5 | 1 in 7,167 |
| Florida | #1,020 | 12 | 1 in 7,730 |
| California | #1,101 | 19 | 1 in 9,967 |
| North Carolina | #1,119 | 6 | 1 in 8,506 |
| Michigan | #1,131 | 5 | 1 in 8,593 |
| Georgia | #1,158 | 6 | 1 in 8,395 |
| Texas | #1,434 | 12 | 1 in 14,260 |
| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
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See more about Kaizen
- 138 spots since 2024 (#502 → #364)
- 1,215 spots since 2020 (#1,579 → #364)
- 1,964 spots since 2015 (#2,328 → #364)
- Biggest jump: 316 spots in 2022 (#1,218 → #902)
- Debuted 2004
- Peaked 2025 at #364 (895 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,908 boys born in 2025 were named Kaizen (0.05%)
- 82.5% of all boys named Kaizen (2,508) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 66 | #5,067 (2008) | #7,928 |
| 2010s | 465 | #1,849 (2019) | #3,116 |
| 2020s | 2,508 | #364 (2025) | #859 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kaizen in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 11,073 of them was named Kaizen, which outranked 91.4% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,215Andreas159
- #1,215Gilbert159
- #1,215Giovani159
- #1,218Kaizen158
- #1,218Chad158
- #1,218Cormac158
- #1,218Kenny158
- #1,225Ansel157
- #1,225Aubrey157
- #1,225Benton157
Tied with 6 names at #1,218; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.