Kim Boy Name

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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.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Kim**
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.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Kim**
	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 somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Kim appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 49 times during the last 125 years.

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