Meaning not yet researched.
Kimi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,357 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,357 in 1965; #5,488 in 2025. About 72% of babies named Kimi in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,488 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #1,357.
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Kimi: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,357 in 1965 · most girls in one year: 66 (1965).
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Kimi, making it the 5,488th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,219 places from #10,707 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 9 girls named Kimi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,357, reached in 1965. That year also had the most girls given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #8,706 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Kimi, making it the 8,614th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,082 places from #7,532 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 11 boys named Kimi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,416, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 53. For comparison, it was #3,056 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kimi in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 7 babies. In all, 2,118 US babies have been given the name, 86% of them girls and 14% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 462 babies named Kimi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 134 US girls were named Kimi; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kiyomi (2,244 babies since 1880), Kimmie (1,409 babies since 1880), Kyomi (1,369 babies since 1880) and Kimmy (1,366 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kimya, Kimie and Kemi 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kimya (757), Kimie (401), Kemi (383), Kimiya (345), Kymia (127), Kimiye (103), Kimiyo (96), Kimiah (95), Kemia (93), Keimy (37), Kimyia (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.
No nicknames listed for Kimi 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 | 23 | #5,488 | 9 | #8,614 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,707 | 11 | #7,532 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,745 | 8 | #9,397 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,861 | 11 | #7,525 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,472 | 14 | #6,198 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,203 | 18 | #5,146 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,142 | 21 | #4,721 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,181 | 12 | #6,948 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,092 | 35 | #3,284 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,083 | 35 | #3,262 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,706 | 38 | #3,056 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,234 | 53 | #2,416 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,139 | 23 | #4,255 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,638 | 5 | #13,334 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,645 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,295 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,806 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,457 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,801 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,016 | 6 | #11,427 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,002 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,372 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,931 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,005 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,815 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,383 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,935 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,293 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,954 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,662 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,847 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,862 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,557 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,616 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,960 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,437 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,749 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,126 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,963 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,510 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,074 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,845 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,098 | — | — |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,226 | — | — |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,460 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,362 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,302 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,299 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,330 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,526 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,175 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,621 | — | — |
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).