Kimi

Where Kimi comes from

The dictionaries list Kimi as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Kimberley, variant of Kimmy — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,434 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Peak, #1,350
    66 babies named Kimi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,629.
  4. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Kimberley, variant of Kimmy.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Kimi hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.