Kimia
Kimia was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,988 among girls’ names; 590 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kimia?
#6,988 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimia rose from #7,817 in 2015 to #6,988 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 10.0 per million.
24 babies in 2000, the peak
Kimia peaked in 2000, when 24 girls were given it, #4,890 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,988 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,533 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,464 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,856 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,849 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,073 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,542 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,499 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,364 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,645 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,817 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,535 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,936 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,421 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,449 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,279 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,254 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,234 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,255 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,273 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,328 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,460 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,185 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,356 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,476 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,890 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,061 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,544 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,754 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,408 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,290 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,493 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,840 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,452 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,097 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,095 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,266 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,792 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,278 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,250 | 5.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,591 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimia, and how old are they?
An estimated 583 Americans named Kimia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 10 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 843 people named Kimia (840 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 490 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
Where are babies named Kimia born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 168 | not ranked | 2.1× |
Where Kimia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimia is most over-represented in California: since 1980 it was given 2.1 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 Kimia 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 8,122 babies since 1880, Kimia is the sixth most given (7.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 116 babies (14%), 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 Kimia
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 Kimia and names like it
- Compare Kimia and KimiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKimia peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimia since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kimia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kimia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.