Kìm
given name · Latin script
Meaning: either pincers, or more popularly, pliers
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kìm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 18th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 1.6M
- DKDenmark1 in 208
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- 1 in 208 (inferred from the name graph)
246,384 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kim in VN Vietnam, US United States, SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
either pincers, or more popularly, pliers
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kìm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
246,384 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kìm is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kix, basket
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kìm mean, and where does it come from?
- either pincers, or more popularly, pliers Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kìm a male or female name?
- Kìm is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kìm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 246 thousand people named Kìm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kim.
- Where is Kìm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kìm is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 208 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kìm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 246,384 people named Kìm in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Kìm compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Kìm is the 18th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kìm?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%ACmThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kìm” — the 18th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.