Meaning not yet researched.
Kem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #930 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #930 in 1956. No US babies were recorded with the name Kem in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #930 in 1956.
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Kem: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #930 in 1956 · most boys in one year: 65 (1956).
Fewer than five US boys were named Kem in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #930, reached in 1956. That year also had the most boys given the name: 65. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,675 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Kem in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,135, reached in 1962. That year also had the most girls given the name: 31. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kem in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 6 babies. In all, 1,033 US babies have been given the name, 34% of them girls and 66% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 434 babies named Kem.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US boys named Kem.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kim (214,768 babies since 1880) and Kym (1,470 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kem in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,825 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,589 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,491 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,455 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,342 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,882 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,881 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,782 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,442 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,358 | 5 | #6,363 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,988 | 5 | #6,049 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,522 | — | — |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,017 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,240 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,066 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,673 | 10 | #3,264 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,900 | 10 | #3,175 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,864 | 10 | #2,965 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,623 | 19 | #1,871 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,193 | 16 | #1,999 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,980 | 13 | #2,285 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,784 | 25 | #1,576 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,631 | 27 | #1,524 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,125 | 30 | #1,442 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,135 | 24 | #1,648 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,252 | 37 | #1,310 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,685 | 26 | #1,606 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,215 | 34 | #1,349 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,534 | 44 | #1,165 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,315 | 51 | #1,069 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,574 | 65 | #930 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,158 | 32 | #1,355 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,087 | 25 | #1,544 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,797 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,982 | 16 | #1,976 |
| 1951 | — | — | 14 | #2,100 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,675 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,709 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,529 |
| 1947 | — | — | 13 | #2,208 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,038 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,396 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).