Kimani
Kimani is given to both girls and boys: 35 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,121 among girls’ names and #3,618 among boys’, #4,652 among all names counting both); 3,457 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Kimani every year since 2006.
An estimated 3,380 Americans named Kimani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kimani?
#3,618 among boys’ names, 2025
Kimani rose from #4,813 in 2015 to #3,618 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 18.1 per million.
151 babies in 2008, the peak
Kimani peaked in 2008, when 151 babies were given it (40 boys, #2,982 among boys’ names). The 66 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,121 | 31 | #3,618 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,433 | 32 | #3,565 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,999 | 17 | #5,577 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,510 | 32 | #3,574 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,942 | 28 | #3,876 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,948 | 26 | #3,973 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,025 | 43 | #2,879 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,464 | 32 | #3,482 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,417 | 29 | #3,724 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,400 | 31 | #3,569 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,413 | 20 | #4,813 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,961 | 28 | #3,735 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,674 | 32 | #3,374 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,175 | 40 | #2,932 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,051 | 35 | #3,212 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,068 | 47 | #2,607 |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,896 | 36 | #3,196 |
| 2008 | 111 | #1,909 | 40 | #2,982 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,508 | 41 | #2,897 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,797 | 38 | #2,953 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,102 | 39 | #2,779 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,360 | 32 | #3,119 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,769 | 40 | #2,561 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,173 | 45 | #2,317 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,744 | 54 | #1,992 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,029 | 39 | #2,452 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,282 | 55 | #1,808 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,041 | 69 | #1,551 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,128 | 55 | #1,762 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,675 | 58 | #1,660 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,424 | 67 | #1,458 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,181 | 63 | #1,501 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,124 | 51 | #1,708 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,119 | 48 | #1,757 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,291 | 29 | #2,433 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 20 | #3,117 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 9 | #5,394 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 8 | #5,223 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 8 | #4,940 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 9 | #4,390 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 10 | #4,023 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 8 | #4,822 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 13 | #3,323 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 16 | #2,898 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 20 | #2,431 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 23 | #2,108 | |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,939 | 29 | #1,809 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 21 | #2,209 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 32 | #1,607 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 27 | #1,768 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 28 | #1,678 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 38 | #1,377 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 25 | #1,806 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #4,056 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,727 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kimani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,457 Americans recorded as Kimani, 49% are girls and 51% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kimani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimani, and how old are they?
3,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,457 Americans ever recorded as Kimani. The median Kimani alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,488 people named Kimani (1,144 women and girls, 1,344 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,964 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 251 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 489 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 987 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kimani born?
The states with the most babies named Kimani are Florida, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,556 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 5 | #1,913 | 1.5× |
Where Kimani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimani is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kimani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,931 babies since 1880, Kimani is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 240 babies (28%), again the second most given.
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 Kimani
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 Kimani and names like it
- Compare Kimani and KymaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKimani peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimani since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kimani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kimani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.