Meaning not yet researched.
Kym: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,084 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,084 in 1959. No US babies were recorded with the name Kym in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #1,084 in 1959.
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Kym: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,084 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 97 (1959).
Fewer than five US girls were named Kym in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,084, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 97. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #5,702 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Kym in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,220, reached in 1959. That year also had the most boys given the name: 41. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kym in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 1,470 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 654 babies named Kym.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Kym.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kim (214,768 babies since 1880) and Kem (1,033 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kyeem 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: Kyeem (18).
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 Kym in the open dataset we use.
Kym is listed as a nickname for Kymberly.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #14,890 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,919 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,003 | — | — |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,883 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,075 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,395 | 7 | #7,253 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,436 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,321 | 7 | #6,959 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,879 | 12 | #4,560 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,290 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,094 | 7 | #6,157 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,304 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,872 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,269 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,090 | 5 | #6,895 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,009 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,605 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,568 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,772 | — | — |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,511 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,364 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,068 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,314 | — | — |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,853 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1967 | 54 | #1,530 | 5 | #4,285 |
| 1966 | 73 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1964 | 62 | #1,438 | 5 | #4,354 |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,534 | 5 | #4,374 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,474 | 8 | #3,247 |
| 1960 | 78 | #1,242 | 20 | #1,843 |
| 1959 | 97 | #1,084 | 41 | #1,220 |
| 1958 | 66 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,518 | 8 | #3,150 |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,409 | 7 | #3,380 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,679 | 12 | #2,373 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,090 | 11 | #2,539 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,645 | 8 | #3,044 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,867 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,702 | — | — |
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).