Kum — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kum

The Social Security Administration has registered 28 babies named Kum between 1940 and 1959, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kum currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1959. The name reached its historical peak in 1940, when 6 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kum performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 17 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kum shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kansas, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kum in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kum in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 28 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.