Kham
Kham was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 92 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kham by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kham?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,440, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2017, the peak
Kham peaked in 2017, when 12 boys were given it, #6,915 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,440 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,118 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,322 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,910 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,915 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,505 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,122 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,229 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,309 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,367 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #13,559 | 2.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,865 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,812 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kham a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 92 Americans recorded as Kham, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kham: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kham, and how old are they?
An estimated 90 Americans named Kham and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,439 people named Kham (419 women and girls, 1,020 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kham rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,640 babies since 1880, Kham is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 172 babies recorded by SSA was a Kham (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kham
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kham and names like it
- Compare Kham and CamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKham peaked in 2017.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Kham.
- Names starting with KMost given first.