Meaning not yet researched.
Kimani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,896 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,896 in 2009; #4,122 in 2025. About 53% of babies named Kimani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,122 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,896.
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Kimani: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,896 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 111 (2009).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Kimani, making it the 4,122nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 689 places from #3,433 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 46 girls named Kimani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,896, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 111. For comparison, it was #3,413 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Kimani, making it the 3,619th most common boys’ name of the year, down 52 places from #3,567 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 32 boys named Kimani in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,377, reached in 1972. The most boys given the name in a single year was 69, in 1998. For comparison, it was #4,815 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kimani in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 3,457 US babies have been given the name, 49% of them girls and 51% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 980 babies named Kimani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 486 US girls were named Kimani; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kymani (5,428 babies since 1880) and Kemani (1,202 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keimoni and Kimonie are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keimoni (108), Kimonie (5).
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 Kimani 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,122 | 31 | #3,619 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,433 | 32 | #3,567 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,999 | 17 | #5,582 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,511 | 32 | #3,576 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,942 | 28 | #3,880 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,948 | 26 | #3,976 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,025 | 43 | #2,880 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,465 | 32 | #3,486 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,418 | 29 | #3,728 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,400 | 31 | #3,570 |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,413 | 20 | #4,815 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,963 | 28 | #3,738 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,676 | 32 | #3,376 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,175 | 40 | #2,934 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,051 | 35 | #3,213 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,068 | 47 | #2,608 |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,896 | 36 | #3,197 |
| 2008 | 111 | #1,909 | 40 | #2,983 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,509 | 41 | #2,899 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,797 | 38 | #2,954 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,106 | 39 | #2,783 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,364 | 32 | #3,123 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,773 | 40 | #2,565 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,177 | 45 | #2,321 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,748 | 54 | #1,996 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,034 | 39 | #2,456 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,285 | 55 | #1,811 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,044 | 69 | #1,554 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,131 | 55 | #1,765 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,680 | 58 | #1,663 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,429 | 67 | #1,463 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,186 | 63 | #1,506 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,130 | 51 | #1,713 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,126 | 48 | #1,762 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,298 | 29 | #2,439 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,123 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,401 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,230 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,945 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,393 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,025 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,824 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,325 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,899 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,432 |
| 1978 | — | — | 23 | #2,108 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,941 | 29 | #1,809 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,210 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,608 |
| 1974 | — | — | 27 | #1,768 |
| 1973 | — | — | 28 | #1,678 |
| 1972 | — | — | 38 | #1,377 |
| 1971 | — | — | 25 | #1,807 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,058 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,728 |
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).