Kimani
- #4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births
- #3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
- Given to boys 50.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1972 · 38 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,758since 1969
Kimani over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #3,583 | 31 |
| 2024 | #3,395 | 46 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #2,975 | 56 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #3,470 | 45 | #3,533 | 32 |
| 2021 | #2,929 | 57 | #3,814 | 28 |
| 2020 | #2,931 | 55 | #3,918 | 26 |
| 2019 | #3,002 | 54 | #2,851 | 43 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #3,387 | 46 | #3,678 | 29 |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 | #3,339 | 32 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 | #2,905 | 40 |
| 2011 | #2,043 | 95 | #3,164 | 35 |
| 2010 | #2,059 | 96 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #1,889 | 111 | #3,162 | 36 |
| 2008 | #1,903 | 111 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #2,778 | 63 | #2,932 | 38 |
| 2005 | #3,081 | 51 | #2,752 | 39 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 | #2,545 | 40 |
| 2002 | #3,146 | 45 | #2,295 | 45 |
| 2001 | #3,703 | 35 | #1,982 | 54 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 | #2,425 | 39 |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 | #1,801 | 55 |
| 1998 | #3,015 | 42 | #1,546 | 69 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | #1,753 | 55 |
| 1996 | #3,632 | 30 | #1,655 | 58 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #1,456 | 67 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 | #1,495 | 63 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #1,699 | 51 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | — | #3,058 | 20 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,068 | 23 | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #1,780 | 29 |
| 1976 | — | #2,177 | 21 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,593 | 32 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,747 | 27 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,653 | 28 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,364 | 38 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,784 | 25 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1969
The first year at least five boys were named Kimani! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kimani is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · boys
- Florida#1,478 · 1 in 13,648
- New York#1,760 · 1 in 16,885
Best ever in a state: #550 in Michigan, 1972.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,478 | 7 | 1 in 13,648 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 59 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #3,583)
- 335 spots since 2020 (#3,918 → #3,583)
- 1,128 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #3,583)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1972 at #1,364 (38 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 8 yrs later
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 27,701
- Highest: 1 in 27,701 boys born in 1998 were named Kimani (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,364 in 1972, was only 1 in 42,674 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 29.3% of all boys named Kimani (515) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2004
- Mostly boys until 2003, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 250 | #1,364 (1972) | #2,038 |
| 1980s | 81 | #2,831 (1980) | #4,197 |
| 1990s | 515 | #1,456 (1995) | #1,862 |
| 2000s | 404 | #1,982 (2001) | #2,698 |
| 2010s | 337 | #2,579 (2010) | #3,389 |
| 2020s | 166 | #3,524 (2024) | #3,974 |
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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