girls:
385 births since 1923
#5331 (7th percentile)
boys:
894 births since 1914
#3695 (19th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1914
#6463 (16th percentile)
The name Kam is the #6,463 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,279 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 16.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,695 (19.4% percentile) for all time with 894 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,331 (6.7% percentile) for all time with 385 births since 1923.
Kam first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1923 for girls). Birth data for Kam is available in 63 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (55 years for boys and 28 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kam has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (69.9% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kam were boys.
For boys, Kam reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #869) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kam ranks #869 for boys (4.6% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 88.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kam reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 7.7% percentile (ranked #689) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 40 births per million (ranked 7.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kam".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kam. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.6% confident that Kam is pronounced as kam, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kahm, at 18.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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