Kim — #4777 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kim

The Social Security Administration has registered 179,781 babies named Kim between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kim currently holds the #4777 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 12,474 babies received it in a single year. Kim is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 34,944 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kim performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 94,386 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Kim shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 20,632 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Kim in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kim 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 179,781 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.