Kimmy
Feminine · “Cyneburg's field”
Kimmy is given to both — 1,089 girls and 277 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Kimmy is two removes from where it started. Kimberly is an English place name that became a South African diamond town that became an American given name; Kim was clipped from it; and Kimmy is Kim softened again. Each step is small and ordinary, and together they get a very long way from a village in Nottinghamshire.
How old is the name Kimmy?
Kimmy first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Kimmy alive today was born around 1974, making them about 51 years old. About 1,000 people named Kimmy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kimmy most popular?
Kimmy peaked in 1967, reaching #1682 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 13,260 places below that high. See the whole 1967 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Kimberley to Kimmy
The story of Kimmy
The diamond fields at Kimberley were named for a British colonial secretary who took his title from the English village, and the discoveries there in the eighteen-seventies made the name internationally famous. It entered use as a given name from that fame rather than from the place — first for boys, then, decisively, for girls in mid-century America. Kim followed as the inevitable clipping and quickly became independent. Kimmy is the third stage: a short form given a softening ending, which is the oldest way English has of making a name affectionate, and the point at which the name stopped needing any of its history.
Meaningscholars disagree
Cyneburg's field
The English place name Kimberley is generally read as a woman's Old English name, Cyneburg, plus leah, a clearing or field — so someone's clearing, with the someone being a name meaning royal fortress. That is the standard reading and it is reconstructed rather than recorded. By the time the word had become a town in South Africa, a surname, a given name, a nickname and then a nickname of a nickname, the Old English field had stopped doing any work at all.
How the name formed
- Kimberley
- Kimberly
- Kim
- Kimmy
Pronouncing Kimmy
KIM-ee
KIM-ee, two syllables, stress at the front, the doubled m keeping the first vowel short. There is no competing reading, and no one has ever hesitated over this name on paper.
Nicknames for Kimmy
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
- 1956
- Most girls named
- 196746 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1682reached in 1967
- Change vs 2023
- −28.6%5 in 2025, from 7
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.
Kimmy in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Kimmys among us
people named Kimmy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Kimmy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kimmy
- #14942
- Kimmy on the 2025 chart
- #932
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kimmy went to 5 girls in 2025, but Kimi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 28, which makes it the 932nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 14,010 places above the chart.
- Kimi23
- Kimmy5
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Kimmy itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Loetta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kimmy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Loetta climbed just as high around 1940, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Loetta's path sketches the road Kimmy is walking now.
Kimmy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Kimmy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kimmy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Completely unambiguous in sound and spelling; nobody asks twice.
- Kim is available as a grown-up short form without changing the name.
- Kimberly is available in the other direction if a formal version is ever needed.
- It reads unmistakably as a nickname, which matters on a document more than in a room.
- Kimmie is equally common as a spelling, so the ending will be written both ways regardless.
- The name is strongly associated with one American generation, and it places a person fairly precisely in time.
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Feminine · #14942 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kimmys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Kimmy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kimmy?
- Kimmy is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kimi is the more common one — 23 births in 2025 against 5 for Kimmy.
- How popular is the name Kimmy in 2025?
- Kimmy ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kimmy?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Kimmy — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kimmy with classmates?
- Kimmy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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