Kimi
Kimi is given to both girls and boys: 23 girls and 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,487 among girls’ names and #8,610 among boys’, #7,658 among all names counting both); 2,118 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,890 Americans named Kimi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 13 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kimi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kimi is “a diminutive of the female given name Kimberley, variant of Kimmy.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kimi?
#5,487 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimi rose from #8,701 in 2015 to #5,487 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 14.3 per million.
79 babies in 2014, the peak
Kimi peaked in 2014, when 79 babies were given it (26 girls, #5,232 among girls’ names). The 32 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,487 | 9 | #8,610 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,702 | 11 | #7,527 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,740 | 8 | #9,392 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,856 | 11 | #7,520 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,467 | 14 | #6,193 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,198 | 18 | #5,142 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,137 | 21 | #4,717 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,176 | 12 | #6,944 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,088 | 35 | #3,282 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,080 | 35 | #3,261 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,701 | 38 | #3,055 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,232 | 53 | #2,414 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,136 | 23 | #4,253 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,634 | 5 | #13,327 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,642 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,293 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,804 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,452 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,797 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,012 | 6 | #11,420 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,997 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,367 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,926 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,001 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,810 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,376 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,928 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,287 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,949 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,657 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,842 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,856 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,551 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,610 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,576 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,955 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,431 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,744 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,121 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,960 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,508 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,073 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,100 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,844 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,097 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,723 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,971 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,699 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,952 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,225 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,772 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,951 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,658 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,905 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,311 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,971 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,078 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,661 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,671 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,580 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,357 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,694 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,773 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,682 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,854 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,865 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,525 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,007 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,666 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,705 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,587 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,458 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,361 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,301 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,297 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,328 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,515 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,524 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,174 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,052 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,437 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,189 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,330 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,388 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,148 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,619 | under 5 |
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 Kimi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,118 Americans recorded as Kimi, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kimi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimi, and how old are they?
1,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,118 Americans ever recorded as Kimi. The median Kimi alive today is 42 years old; half are between 13 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 2,099 people named Kimi (1,914 women and girls, 185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,786 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 348 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 526 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 270 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 267 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 479 |
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 Kimi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,392 | 1.6× |
Where Kimi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimi is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 1.6 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 girls’ 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 Kimi 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,254 babies since 1880, Kimi is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 982 babies (3.3%), the third 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kimi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jona | 2,277 |
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 Kimi and names like it
- Compare Kimi and KiyomiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKimi peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimi since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kimi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kimi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.