girls:
392 births since 1949
#5324 (7th percentile)
boys:
96 births since 1951
#4490 (2nd percentile)
overall:
488 births since 1949
#7251 (6th percentile)
The name Kimm is the #7,251 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 488 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 6.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,324 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 392 births since 1949. For boys, it ranks #4,490 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 96 births since 1951.
Kimm first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for girls and 1951 for boys). Birth data for Kimm is available in 26 out of the 28 years between 1949 and 1976 (24 years for girls and 11 years for boys). 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 Kimm has been given predominantly to girls, with 80.3% of all recorded births being female. In 1976, 100.0% of babies named Kimm were girls.
For girls, Kimm reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #744) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
For boys, Kimm reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #626) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 9 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1962.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kimm".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kimm. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kimm is pronounced as kihm, which has 1 syllables.
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