Kimi is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Kimi in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kimi in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Kimi by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Kimi ranks at #6,674. That means there are 6,673 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kimi.
While Kimi is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1965, the name Kimi reached its highest popularity with #1,268 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Kimi. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Kimi.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kimi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 25 babies were born with the name Kimi. This puts the name in rank 4,546 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 10,587,993 newborns was named Kimi that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Kimi has been and remains marvelously unusual!
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Kimi in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 517 women and girls named Kimi, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 517 women and girls named Kimi live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Hawaii, Michigan, New York and Oregon. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Kimi. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Kimi lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Kimi and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Kimi relative to its female population is Hawaii. And even there, only one in 40,118 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Kimi.
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 four letters, the name Kimi is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Kimi 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 Kimi, you can simply say:
Koala
Igloo
Mouse
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kimi
Kimi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
I
M
I
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.
K
I
M
I
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. Kimi sounds like this:
