Kim Girl Name

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The name Kim is of English origin, and is a diminutive form of Kimberly. The table below indicates the number of times the name Kim has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Kim**
Use of the Name Kim for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
176,462	168,539	4,261	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Kim has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Kim first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1936, which is the first year shown on the table. Kim last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1991, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Kim**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1936			855	51
1937			811	58
1938
1939			852	52
1940			768	65
1941			852	55
1942			684	88
1943			620	104
1944	836	83	523	135
1945	848	79	433	188
1946	581	190	318	405
1947	521	254	298	531
1948	536	238	305	510
1949	515	252	255	634
1950	480	286	231	798
1951	331	570	172	1,477
1952	216	1,291	127	2,343
1953	182	1,744	127	2,554
1954	133	2,936	110	3,163
1955	74	5,688	97	3,498
1956	38	9,892	119	2,950
1957	35	11,419	162	1,976
1958	40	10,647	206	1,313
1959	35	11,589	241	1,109
1960	34	12,471	237	1,154
1961	36	11,368	239	1,103
1962	37	11,643	256	913
1963	39	10,675	264	847
1964	42	9,981	278	779
1965	43	10,077	305	612
1966	43	9,190	317	550
1967	49	7,406	348	458
1968	57	6,088	385	408
1969	66	5,452	416	362
1970	78	4,725	457	314
1971	102	3,681	492	267
1972	118	2,735	537	220
1973	129	2,194	586	184
1974	144	1,939	634	161
1975	178	1,486	632	164
1976	195	1,249	706	139
1977	230	1,085	745	131
1978	283	818	761	123
1979	307	780	821	113
1980	382	600	833	112
1981	411	533	842	109
1982	456	466	912	96
1983	490	401	922	91
1984	509	385	916	92
1985	566	347	953	92
1986	663	279
1987	666	279
1988	748	250
1989	758	259
1990	787	256
1991	931	206
Totals:		176,462		33,651

During the last 125 years, parents have used Kim as a girl's name about 83% of the time and less frequently (about 16% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Kim appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 48 times during the last 125 years.

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