Kemper — #4196 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kemper

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,584 babies named Kemper between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kemper currently holds the #4196 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 70 babies received it in a single year. Kemper is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 280 additional births since 1999.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kemper performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 452 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Kemper shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Virginia, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Kansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kemper in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kemper in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,584 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.