boys:
851 births since 1949
#3736 (18th percentile)
overall:
851 births since 1949
#6888 (11th percentile)
The name Kimo is the #6,888 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 851 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 11.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,736 (18.5% percentile) for all time with 851 births since 1949.
Kimo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (first recorded for boys in 1949). Birth data for Kimo is available in 67 out of the 74 years between 1949 and 2022. 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.
For boys, Kimo reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #659) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kimo".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kimo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.2% confident that Kimo is pronounced as KEE-moh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KIH-moh, at 10.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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