Meaning and history
Kim is now commonly used as a short form of Kimberly, though it existed independently before that name became widespread. Rudyard Kipling used it for the male title character of his 1901 novel Kim, where it was short for Kimball, while later American actresses Kim Hunter and Kim Novak helped popularize it for women. Modern bearers include reality television figure Kim Kardashian and Belgian tennis champion Kim Clijsters.
20062006: 85 births, rank #2,248
2007: 104 births, rank #1,971
2008: 64 births, rank #2,802
2009: 48 births, rank #3,409
2010: 52 births, rank #3,159
20112011: 50 births, rank #3,267
2012: 92 births, rank #2,078
2013: 62 births, rank #2,769
2014: 69 births, rank #2,560
2015: 72 births, rank #2,501
20162016: 53 births, rank #3,100
2017: 47 births, rank #3,346
2018: 36 births, rank #4,001
2019: 54 births, rank #3,002
2020: 39 births, rank #3,735
20212021: 39 births, rank #3,801
2022: 40 births, rank #3,765
2023: 38 births, rank #3,911
2024: 28 births, rank #4,772
20252025: 34 births, rank #4,172
Kim moved from #787 to #930 for girls between 1990 and 1991. Its highest annual birth count came in 1960, with 12,477 births.