Girls' name · since 2023

Kindness

Kindness has 12 recorded births since 2023 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.

12
total births
2023–2025
years on record
2020s
peak decade
100%
born in that decade

Kindness sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 12 recorded since 2023.

Kindness has 12 recorded births among girls since 2023, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2023 to 2025.

  • 12 total births
  • 2023–2025 years on record
  • 2020s peak decade
  • 100% born in that decade

Data updated Jul 2026

Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Kindness's 12 recorded births place it above 27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

Kindness's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Kindness's SSA record in two at 2025 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2023, with only 6 births recorded.

Kindness popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2025

Last recorded 2025
Peak year (2023)
6
Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
6 20232025 6

Kindness by decade

Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance

2020s was Kindness's strongest decade.

12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.

Kindness births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 12 births (100% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of July 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Kindness?
12 babies have been named Kindness since 2023. It was last recorded in 2025. The peak year was 2023 with 6 births.
When was Kindness most popular?
Kindness was most popular in the 2020s decade with 12 total births. The single peak year was 2023.
How long has the name Kindness been used?
Records for Kindness go back to 2023, giving 3 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Kindness?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Kinsley, Kinley, Kinsey, Kinslee, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

Data Sources

Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2023–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

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NameAlmanac. "Kindness: Baby Name Since 2023 - 12 Births, Peak 2023." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kindness. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kindness draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.