Kima
Kima was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,446 among girls’ names; 377 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kima?
#11,446 among girls’ names, 2025
Kima entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,446 in 2025.
23 babies in 2021, the peak
Kima peaked in 2021, when 23 girls were given it, #5,480 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,446 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,785 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,649 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,556 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,480 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,927 | 6.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,508 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,093 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,099 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,154 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,850 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,746 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,337 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,527 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,957 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,500 | 5.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,814 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,778 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,593 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,679 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,664 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,536 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,650 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,831 | 12.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,493 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,541 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,037 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,880 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,676 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,494 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,866 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,607 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,166 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,063 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,145 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,371 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,101 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,045 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,960 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,464 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,755 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,746 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,096 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kima, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Kima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 5 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 474 people named Kima (432 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,058 babies since 1880, Kima is the seventh most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 107 babies (7.5%), the fifth most given that year.
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.
More about Kima and names like it
- Compare Kima and KimiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKima peaked in 2021.
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- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kima.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kima alive today were born 1965-1980.
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