girls:
1.1k births since 1956
#4632 (19th percentile)
boys:
277 births since 1951
#4309 (6th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1951
#6382 (18th percentile)
The name Kimmy is the #6,382 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,361 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 17.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,632 (18.9% percentile) for all time with 1,084 births since 1956. For boys, it ranks #4,309 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 277 births since 1951.
Kimmy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (1951 for boys and 1956 for girls). Birth data for Kimmy is available in 72 out of the 73 years between 1951 and 2023 (67 years for girls and 23 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 Kimmy has been given predominantly to girls, with 79.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kimmy were girls. Interestingly, until around 1960, the name was more popular for boys (61.4% boys from 1951 to 1959), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (87.0% girls from 1960 to 2023).
For girls, Kimmy reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 5.6% percentile (ranked #697) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 27 births per million (ranked 5.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kimmy ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 14.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kimmy reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #638) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kimmy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kimmy is pronounced as KIH-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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