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Baby Boy Names - Kim
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The name Kim is of Scandinavian origin, and is an alternate form of Joachim. The table below indicates the number of times the name Kim has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.
| Use of the Name Kim for Boys During the Last ... | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 125 Years | 50 Years | 25 Years | 10 Years | 5 Years | 2 Years | 1 Year |
| 33,651 | 20,440 | 592 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The table below indicates the number of times the name Kim has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Kim first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1936, which is the first year shown on the table. Kim last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1991, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.
| Used as a Boy Name | Used as a Girl Name | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Rank | Count | Rank | Count |
| 1936 | 855 | 51 | ||
| 1937 | 811 | 58 | ||
| 1938 | ||||
| 1939 | 852 | 52 | ||
| 1940 | 768 | 65 | ||
| 1941 | 852 | 55 | ||
| 1942 | 684 | 88 | ||
| 1943 | 620 | 104 | ||
| 1944 | 523 | 135 | 836 | 83 |
| 1945 | 433 | 188 | 848 | 79 |
| 1946 | 318 | 405 | 581 | 190 |
| 1947 | 298 | 531 | 521 | 254 |
| 1948 | 305 | 510 | 536 | 238 |
| 1949 | 255 | 634 | 515 | 252 |
| 1950 | 231 | 798 | 480 | 286 |
| 1951 | 172 | 1,477 | 331 | 570 |
| 1952 | 127 | 2,343 | 216 | 1,291 |
| 1953 | 127 | 2,554 | 182 | 1,744 |
| 1954 | 110 | 3,163 | 133 | 2,936 |
| 1955 | 97 | 3,498 | 74 | 5,688 |
| 1956 | 119 | 2,950 | 38 | 9,892 |
| 1957 | 162 | 1,976 | 35 | 11,419 |
| 1958 | 206 | 1,313 | 40 | 10,647 |
| 1959 | 241 | 1,109 | 35 | 11,589 |
| 1960 | 237 | 1,154 | 34 | 12,471 |
| 1961 | 239 | 1,103 | 36 | 11,368 |
| 1962 | 256 | 913 | 37 | 11,643 |
| 1963 | 264 | 847 | 39 | 10,675 |
| 1964 | 278 | 779 | 42 | 9,981 |
| 1965 | 305 | 612 | 43 | 10,077 |
| 1966 | 317 | 550 | 43 | 9,190 |
| 1967 | 348 | 458 | 49 | 7,406 |
| 1968 | 385 | 408 | 57 | 6,088 |
| 1969 | 416 | 362 | 66 | 5,452 |
| 1970 | 457 | 314 | 78 | 4,725 |
| 1971 | 492 | 267 | 102 | 3,681 |
| 1972 | 537 | 220 | 118 | 2,735 |
| 1973 | 586 | 184 | 129 | 2,194 |
| 1974 | 634 | 161 | 144 | 1,939 |
| 1975 | 632 | 164 | 178 | 1,486 |
| 1976 | 706 | 139 | 195 | 1,249 |
| 1977 | 745 | 131 | 230 | 1,085 |
| 1978 | 761 | 123 | 283 | 818 |
| 1979 | 821 | 113 | 307 | 780 |
| 1980 | 833 | 112 | 382 | 600 |
| 1981 | 842 | 109 | 411 | 533 |
| 1982 | 912 | 96 | 456 | 466 |
| 1983 | 922 | 91 | 490 | 401 |
| 1984 | 916 | 92 | 509 | 385 |
| 1985 | 953 | 92 | 566 | 347 |
| 1986 | 663 | 279 | ||
| 1987 | 666 | 279 | ||
| 1988 | 748 | 250 | ||
| 1989 | 758 | 259 | ||
| 1990 | 787 | 256 | ||
| 1991 | 931 | 206 | ||
| Totals: | 33,651 | 176,462 | ||
During the last 125 years, parents have used Kim as a boy's name about 16% of the time and more frequently (about 83% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Kim appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 118 times during the last 125 years.
See the Social Security card applications information for qualifiers about the data shown on this page.
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