Kem
Kem is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 930th, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195665 births
- Best rank
- #930in 1956
- Since 1942
- 1,033people given the name
The story in the numbers
680 boys have been named Kem in the United States since 1942, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 65 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 65 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1950s alone account for 45%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Kem is used for both sexes: 34% of its bearers are girls (353), most of them born around 1962.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1956, its biggest year
Kem was the 930th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Kem
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rickpeak 1958
- Randalpeak 1958
- Rickypeak 1958
- Randypeak 1956
- Rickeypeak 1958
- Tabpeak 1957
- Greggpeak 1962
- Rockpeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.