Kym

Where Kym comes from

The dictionaries list Kym as a given name — a unisex given name, variant of Kim — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #5,301 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Peak, #1,079
    97 babies named Kym — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,755.
  4. 1997
    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 unisex given name, variant of Kim.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Kym 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.