Kim is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Kim is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Kim. In the SmartGenius ranking, Kim is #2,697 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 207,434 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kim. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Kim reached its highest rank ever in the year 1956 at #28. In other words: 12,857 newborn girls were named Kim that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Kim is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Kim will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kim was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Kim ranked 2,862 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 50 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Kim will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Kim is one of them. However, Kim is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Wisconsin seem to particularly fancy this name – the 7,865 women called Kim who live here are 0,259% of all female residents and push their name up to #93, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Wisconsin.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With only three letters, the name Kim is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kim and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kim, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kim sounds like this:
