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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kim” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kim” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kim” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kim” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kim” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kim” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kim” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kim” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 10 0.000004368 10 -100%
1923 13 0.000005646 6 7 -8%
1924 17 0.000007138 9 8 6%
1925 8 0.000003429 8 100%
1926 19 0.000008276 9 10 -5%
1927 16 0.000006898 7 9 -13%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1929 21 0.00000958 13 8 24%
1930 16 0.000007197 9 7 13%
1931 28 0.000013306 17 11 21%
1932 35 0.000016578 14 21 -20%
1933 37 0.000018505 14 23 -24%
1934 40 0.00001926 16 24 -20%
1935 44 0.000021054 20 24 -9%
1936 77 0.000037062 27 50 -30%
1937 83 0.000038955 25 58 -40%
1938 74 0.000033445 34 40 -8%
1939 85 0.000038576 33 52 -22%
1940 97 0.000042125 31 66 -36%
1941 92 0.00003776 38 54 -17%
1942 146 0.000053444 58 88 -21%
1943 163 0.000057749 59 104 -28%
1944 219 0.00008141 84 135 -23%
1945 265 0.00009989 77 188 -42%
1946 597 0.000186837 190 407 -36%
1947 789 0.000219025 255 534 -35%
1948 749 0.000216943 239 510 -36%
1949 889 0.00025511 253 636 -43%
1950 1080 0.000308276 285 795 -47%
1951 2044 0.000554871 570 1474 -44%
1952 3648 0.000960504 1292 2356 -29%
1953 4304 0.001116865 1739 2565 -19%
1954 6093 0.001530632 2926 3167 -4%
1955 9177 0.002285633 5687 3490 24%
1956 12856 0.00311809 9896 2960 54%
1957 13402 0.003189325 11427 1975 71%
1958 11984 0.002898955 10663 1321 78%
1959 12701 0.0030546 11596 1105 83%
1960 13630 0.003281321 12474 1156 83%
1961 12470 0.003010404 11368 1102 82%
1962 12574 0.003115946 11658 916 85%
1963 11529 0.002912688 10681 848 85%
1964 10759 0.002767514 9980 779 86%
1965 10696 0.002950255 10084 612 89%
1966 9742 0.002802925 9194 548 89%
1967 7864 0.002316418 7407 457 88%
1968 6497 0.001923092 6089 408 87%
1969 5812 0.001672363 5451 361 88%
1970 5047 0.001399412 4729 318 87%
1971 3949 0.001150522 3682 267 86%
1972 2960 0.000941777 2741 219 85%
1973 2378 0.00078823 2195 183 85%
1974 2097 0.000689803 1936 161 85%
1975 1645 0.000544811 1481 164 80%
1976 1385 0.000456448 1248 137 80%
1977 1214 0.000382182 1083 131 78%
1978 946 0.000298059 823 123 74%
1979 894 0.000268711 779 115 74%
1980 715 0.000207577 602 113 68%
1981 644 0.000186161 536 108 66%
1982 563 0.000160492 467 96 66%
1983 492 0.000142059 401 91 63%
1984 481 0.000137872 388 93 61%
1985 440 0.00012328 349 91 59%
1986 362 0.000101769 281 81 55%
1987 356 0.000098735 280 76 57%
1988 343 0.000092827 253 90 48%
1989 331 0.000086098 259 72 56%
1990 322 0.000081468 256 66 59%
1991 267 0.000068545 207 60 55%
1992 227 0.000059095 182 45 60%
1993 224 0.000059412 185 39 65%
1994 207 0.00005568 161 46 56%
1995 166 0.000045329 135 31 63%
1996 176 0.000048256 129 47 47%
1997 130 0.000035855 110 20 69%
1998 126 0.000034256 102 24 62%
1999 162 0.000043856 133 29 64%
2000 134 0.000035451 116 18 73%
2001 126 0.000033659 100 26 59%
2002 125 0.000033438 111 14 78%
2003 100 0.0000263 83 17 66%
2004 109 0.000028527 91 18 67%
2005 86 0.000022368 73 13 70%
2006 95 0.000024013 85 10 79%
2007 114 0.000028517 104 10 82%
2008 71 0.000018063 64 7 80%
2009 65 0.000017015 48 17 48%
2010 61 0.000016505 52 9 70%
2011 57 0.000015583 50 7 75%
2012 101 0.000027615 92 9 82%
2013 70 0.000019201 62 8 77%
2014 88 0.000023743 69 19 57%
2015 83 0.000022427 72 11 73%
2016 60 0.000016355 53 7 77%
2017 55 0.000015379 47 8 71%
2018 41 0.000011661 36 5 76%
2019 64 0.000018439 54 10 69%
2020 49 0.000014668 39 10 59%
2021 47 0.000013873 39 8 66%
2022 50 0.000014779 40 10 60%
2023 47 0.000014194 38 9 62%
2024 41 0.000012318 28 13 37%

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