Kym
Kym was last recorded in 2003, when 6 babies were given it; 1,470 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Kym and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 55 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kym by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kym mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kym is “a unisex given name, variant of Kim.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kym?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,883, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
138 babies in 1959, the peak
Kym peaked in 1959, when 138 babies were given it (97 girls, #1,083 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #14,883 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,913 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,997 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,876 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,069 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,389 | 7 | #7,247 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,428 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,314 | 7 | #6,952 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,873 | 12 | #4,554 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,284 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 6 | #11,088 | 7 | #6,151 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,299 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,868 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,266 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,088 | 5 | #6,891 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,007 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,603 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,566 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,771 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,510 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,363 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,067 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,312 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,851 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,778 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,069 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,937 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,513 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,283 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,768 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,482 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 54 | #1,530 | 5 | #4,284 |
| 1966 | 73 | #1,266 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,469 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 62 | #1,438 | 5 | #4,353 |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,344 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,533 | 5 | #4,373 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,473 | 8 | #3,246 |
| 1960 | 78 | #1,241 | 20 | #1,842 |
| 1959 | 97 | #1,083 | 41 | #1,219 |
| 1958 | 66 | #1,306 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,517 | 8 | #3,149 |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,408 | 7 | #3,379 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,678 | 12 | #2,372 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,089 | 11 | #2,538 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,644 | 8 | #3,043 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,866 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,700 | 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 Kym a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,470 Americans recorded as Kym, 88% are girls and 12% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kym: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kym, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,470 Americans ever recorded as Kym. The median Kym alive today is 62 years old; half are between 55 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 2,694 people named Kym (2,407 women and girls, 287 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,330 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 654 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 454 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16 |
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 Kym born?
The states with the most babies named Kym are California, New York and Texas, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 181 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 70 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 9 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kym is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kym is most over-represented in California: since 1950 it was given 1.3 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 Kym 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 216,726 babies since 1880, Kym is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 40 babies recorded by SSA was a Kym (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kym
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Robbin | 10,384 |
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 Kym and names like it
- Compare Kym and KimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKym peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kym since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Kym.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kym alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.