Kim
Kim is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 34th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196012,474 births
- Best rank
- #34in 1960
- Since 1914
- 214,725people given the name
The story in the numbers
179,781 girls have been named Kim in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 12,474 births — 0.62% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 28 births in 2024, against 12,474 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 53%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 16 of them in the top 100.
Kim is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are boys (34,944), most of them born around 1955.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kim | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 57 | |
| 1930s | 209 | |
| 1940s | 1,284 | |
| 1950s | 56,081 | |
| 1960s | 94,386 | |
| 1970s | 20,697 | |
| 1980s | 3,816 | |
| 1990s | 1,600 | |
| 2000s | 875 | |
| 2010s | 587 | |
| 2020s | 184 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Kim was the 34th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Kim
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leisapeak 1958
- Terripeak 1959
- Kympeak 1959
- Lorripeak 1961
- Robbinpeak 1959
- Lesapeak 1962
- Lorriepeak 1961
- Roxanepeak 1956
Other spellings in the data
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.