Feminine dossier · first seen 1914

Kim

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Kim
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.8% from peak

Peak era

1960

Peak rank proxy

12,474

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1914Peak 19602024

Peak year

1960

Decline from peak

99.8%

2024

All-time

179,781

Kim once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1960, when 12,474 girls were named Kim.

In 2024, only 28 girls were given the name.

Down 99.8% from its peak.

All told, about 179,781 Americans have been named Kim and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1914.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.8% from peak

196012,474 girls named Kim

202428 girls named Kim

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