Meaning not yet researched.
Kim: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #34 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #34 in 1960; #4,228 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Kim in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,228 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #34.
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Kim: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #34 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 12,477 (1960).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Kim, making it the 4,228th most common girls’ name of the year, up 606 places from #4,834 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 28 girls named Kim in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #34, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 12,477. For comparison, it was #2,516 in 2015 and #481 in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kim, making it the 11,404th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,743 places from #6,661 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 13 boys named Kim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #98, reached in 1955. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,490. For comparison, it was #7,331 in 2015 and #232 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kim in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 214,768 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 101,576 babies named Kim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 408 US girls were named Kim; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kimber (11,666 babies since 1880), Kym (1,470 babies since 1880) and Kem (1,033 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kimble, Kimm and Kiam are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kimmy.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kimble (833), Kimm (488), Kiam (153), Kymm (49), Kyam (13), Keem (7), Keme (6).
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.
Kim is listed as a nickname for Kimberley, Kimberly.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,228 | 6 | #11,404 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,834 | 13 | #6,661 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,944 | 9 | #8,615 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,797 | 10 | #8,069 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,847 | 8 | #9,306 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,750 | 10 | #7,828 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,024 | 10 | #7,959 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,040 | 5 | #13,263 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,366 | 8 | #9,329 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,120 | 7 | #10,265 |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,516 | 11 | #7,331 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,571 | 19 | #4,980 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,792 | 8 | #9,275 |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,087 | 9 | #8,557 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,293 | 7 | #10,275 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,181 | 9 | #8,489 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,439 | 17 | #5,444 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,819 | 7 | #10,531 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,981 | 10 | #7,917 |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,259 | 10 | #7,756 |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,421 | 13 | #6,061 |
| 2004 | 91 | #2,025 | 18 | #4,702 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,113 | 17 | #4,726 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,661 | 14 | #5,279 |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,787 | 26 | #3,370 |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,546 | 18 | #4,306 |
| 1999 | 133 | #1,338 | 29 | #2,905 |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,602 | 24 | #3,245 |
| 1997 | 110 | #1,493 | 20 | #3,534 |
| 1996 | 129 | #1,324 | 47 | #1,925 |
| 1995 | 135 | #1,258 | 31 | #2,473 |
| 1994 | 161 | #1,121 | 46 | #1,859 |
| 1993 | 185 | #1,002 | 39 | #2,071 |
| 1992 | 182 | #1,028 | 45 | #1,825 |
| 1991 | 207 | #930 | 60 | #1,475 |
| 1990 | 256 | #787 | 66 | #1,374 |
| 1989 | 259 | #757 | 72 | #1,286 |
| 1988 | 253 | #742 | 90 | #1,044 |
| 1987 | 280 | #667 | 76 | #1,104 |
| 1986 | 281 | #657 | 81 | #1,032 |
| 1985 | 349 | #565 | 91 | #960 |
| 1984 | 388 | #507 | 93 | #915 |
| 1983 | 401 | #491 | 91 | #926 |
| 1982 | 467 | #456 | 96 | #914 |
| 1981 | 536 | #410 | 108 | #849 |
| 1980 | 602 | #383 | 113 | #830 |
| 1979 | 779 | #308 | 115 | #815 |
| 1978 | 823 | #281 | 123 | #765 |
| 1977 | 1,083 | #230 | 131 | #745 |
| 1976 | 1,248 | #195 | 137 | #717 |
| 1975 | 1,481 | #178 | 164 | #632 |
| 1974 | 1,936 | #145 | 161 | #635 |
| 1973 | 2,195 | #129 | 183 | #586 |
| 1972 | 2,741 | #118 | 219 | #538 |
| 1971 | 3,682 | #101 | 267 | #495 |
| 1970 | 4,729 | #78 | 318 | #456 |
| 1969 | 5,450 | #66 | 361 | #417 |
| 1968 | 6,089 | #57 | 408 | #384 |
| 1967 | 7,408 | #49 | 457 | #349 |
| 1966 | 9,194 | #43 | 548 | #316 |
| 1965 | 10,083 | #43 | 611 | #306 |
| 1964 | 9,980 | #42 | 779 | #277 |
| 1963 | 10,683 | #39 | 848 | #264 |
| 1962 | 11,657 | #37 | 916 | #255 |
| 1961 | 11,367 | #36 | 1,102 | #240 |
| 1960 | 12,477 | #34 | 1,158 | #237 |
| 1959 | 11,594 | #35 | 1,105 | #241 |
| 1958 | 10,664 | #40 | 1,322 | #205 |
| 1957 | 11,426 | #35 | 1,974 | #162 |
| 1956 | 9,897 | #38 | 2,960 | #118 |
| 1955 | 5,687 | #75 | 3,490 | #98 |
| 1954 | 2,926 | #134 | 3,167 | #109 |
| 1953 | 1,739 | #182 | 2,565 | #127 |
| 1952 | 1,292 | #216 | 2,356 | #126 |
| 1951 | 570 | #331 | 1,474 | #172 |
| 1950 | 285 | #481 | 795 | #232 |
| 1949 | 254 | #513 | 636 | #255 |
| 1948 | 239 | #536 | 510 | #305 |
| 1947 | 255 | #521 | 534 | #298 |
| 1946 | 190 | #581 | 407 | #318 |
| 1945 | 77 | #859 | 188 | #435 |
| 1944 | 84 | #834 | 135 | #526 |
| 1943 | 59 | #1,042 | 104 | #620 |
| 1942 | 58 | #1,031 | 88 | #686 |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,234 | 54 | #864 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,363 | 66 | #763 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,301 | 52 | #850 |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,257 | 40 | #1,018 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,516 | 58 | #811 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,430 | 50 | #866 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,742 | 24 | #1,410 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,042 | 24 | #1,408 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,218 | 23 | #1,432 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,307 | 21 | #1,564 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,985 | 11 | #2,397 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,198 | 7 | #3,447 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,505 | 8 | #3,123 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,544 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,072 | 9 | #3,035 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,407 | 10 | #2,814 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,863 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,525 | 8 | #3,385 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,680 | 7 | #3,657 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,909 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,711 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,362 | — | — |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,504 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,121 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,385 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,737 |
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).