Kam

Last seen for girls in 1982 at #10,517 · #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
Given to boys 71.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
2016 · 57 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
968
since 1914

Kam over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,553, 1974peak #2,305, 2016girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,45033
2024#3,00141
2023#2,73747
2022#2,67549
2021#2,55251
2020#2,92540
2019#2,39456
2018#2,50751
2017#2,34555
2016#2,30557
2015#2,48650
2014#2,88540
2013#3,75327
2012#3,89426
2011#4,65920
2010#7,08711
2009#9,8647
2008#9,8717
2007#9,7887
2006#7,42710
2005#11,4725
2004
2003#7,8318
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1998#8,4796
1997#6,1009
1996
1995#8,8685
1994#5,8689
1993#8,7005
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1990#5,8238
1989#7,9055
1988#5,2008
1987
1986#5,9266
1985#6,5235
1984#5,5616
1983
1982#10,5175
1981#10,4115
1980#8,1787#4,9407
1979#6,6969#2,77716
1978#4,45915#2,66916
1977#4,06917#4,5827
1976#2,72828#4,4187
1975#2,32135#2,45017
1974#1,55362#2,79913
1973#2,91423#3,22310
1972#2,97622#4,9865
1971#8,3245
1970#5,06110#3,2829
1969#5,4568#2,30814
1968#2,36027#4,1365
1967#4,6259
1966#4,8668#2,9868
1965#3,95211#3,2447
1964#3,87912#3,6016
1963#3,80112#4,0485
1962#6,5785#3,3057
1961#5,3097
1960#4,7738#4,0385
1959
1958#5,4086#3,0338
1957#3,69611#3,5526
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1955#4,3768
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1953#5,6735
1952#3,7345
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1924#4,3475
1923#4,9675
1922#4,3075
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1914#3,2645
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five boys were named Kam! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1914–1956, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Kam is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Kam in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kam
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 449 spots since 2024 (#3,001#3,450)
  • 525 spots since 2020 (#2,925#3,450)
  • 964 spots since 2015 (#2,486#3,450)
Rise & fade · boys
102 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 2016 at #2,305 (57 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 32,040
  • Highest: 1 in 32,040 boys born in 2019 were named Kam (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,305 in 2016, was only 1 in 33,294 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 40.6% of all boys named Kam (393) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1984
  • Mostly girls until 1983, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#3,264 (1914)#3,264
1920s10#4,307 (1922)#4,327
1930s0
1940s0
1950s19#3,033 (1958)#3,440
1960s57#2,308 (1969)#3,458
1970s100#2,450 (1975)#3,465
1980s37#4,940 (1980)#6,009
1990s42#5,823 (1990)#7,306
2000s44#7,427 (2006)#9,376
2010s393#2,305 (2016)#3,432
2020s261#2,552 (2021)#2,890

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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