Kiyomi
Kiyomi was given to 355 girls in 2025, #765 among girls’ names; 2,244 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Kiyomi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 13.
Kiyomi climbed 281 places in 2025, the #17 climb among the girls’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiyomi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kiyomi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kiyomi is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese きよみ (Kiyomi).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kiyomi?
#765 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiyomi rose from #3,110 in 2015 to #765 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.22 per 1,000.
355 babies in 2025, the peak
Kiyomi peaked in 2025, when 355 girls were given it, #765 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 240 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 355 | #765 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 240 | #1,046 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 186 | #1,246 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 194 | #1,242 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 173 | #1,309 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 144 | #1,489 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 80 | #2,277 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,320 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,956 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,589 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,110 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,759 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,346 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,758 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,033 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,342 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,237 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,043 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,206 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,030 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,121 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,948 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,409 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,066 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,538 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,544 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,477 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,291 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,865 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,150 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,358 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,477 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,718 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,214 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,073 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,686 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,931 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,652 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,716 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,417 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,221 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,426 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,653 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,200 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,503 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,905 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,080 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,841 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,724 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,361 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,562 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,948 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiyomi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiyomi has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kiyomi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiyomi, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,244 Americans ever recorded as Kiyomi. The median Kiyomi alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,394 people named Kiyomi (1,359 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% 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 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 153 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 341 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,650 |
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 Kiyomi born?
The states with the most babies named Kiyomi are California, Texas and Georgia, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 35 | #849 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 31 | #931 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 31 | #356 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 27 | #640 | 0.9× |
| New York | 26 | #644 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 15 | #645 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 11 | #686 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #844 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 11 | #711 | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 10 | #496 | 0.6× |
Where Kiyomi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiyomi is most over-represented in California: since 1917 it was given 1.4 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 Kiyomi 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,104 babies since 1880, Kiyomi is the most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 355 of their 1,019 babies (35%), the second 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 Kiyomi
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 Kiyomi and names like it
- Compare Kiyomi and KimiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKiyomi peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiyomi since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Kiyomi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kiyomi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kiyomi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.