Kimmie
Masculine · “Old English”
Kimmie is given to both — 131 boys and 1,278 girls since 1880. See Kimmie as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Kimmie entered the US charts in 1953, peaked at #1826 in 1954, is rarely given in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Kimmie?
Kimmie first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Kimmie alive today was born around 1958, making them about 67 years old. About 100 people named Kimmie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kimmie most popular?
Kimmie peaked in 1954, reaching #1826 nationally. See the whole 1954 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Kimberly to Kimmie
The story of Kimmie
Three unrelated Kims share the spelling. The Korean one is a surname of enormous antiquity, borne by the royal houses of Silla and Gaya and written with the character meaning gold, and it is carried by roughly a fifth of the population of both Koreas. The English one is a clipping of Kimberly, which became an independent name in the 1940s and 1950s. In between sits Kipling's Kim, published in 1901, whose hero is a boy, Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan in Lahore; that book kept the name faintly male in English for a generation. Kimmie is the American diminutive of the second of the three, formed with the -ie ending that English borrowed from Scots and now applies to almost anything.
Meaningscholars disagree
Old English, Cyneburg's clearing
Kimmie is a diminutive of Kim, itself a clip of Kimberly, from the English place name. The Korean surname Kim, written with the Chinese character for gold, is entirely unrelated, as is the male name Kim in Kipling's 1901 novel, where it is short for Kimball. The peak of this spelling is 1959.
How the name formed
- Kimberly
- Kim
- Kimmie
Related forms: Kimmy · Kim
Pronouncing Kimmie
KIM-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Kimmie and Kimmy are homophones; the -ie ending is the older of the two spellings.
Nicknames for Kimmie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1953
- Most boys named
- 195418 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1826reached in 1954
- Change vs 1971
- 0.0%5 in 1974, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kimmie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kimmy in English — spelling variant
- Kim in Korean — related form
Kimmies among us
people named Kimmie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Kimmie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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Frequently asked
- How many Kimmies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 100 people named Kimmie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kimmie in 2025?
- Kimmie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Kimmie with classmates?
- Kimmie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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