Kįm

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kįm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Gabon it is the 65th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 208
  • SESweden1 in 586

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

246,384 people, 2020

Sources
348 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 208 (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kim in US United States, FI Finland, GA Gabon.

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)

Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kįm 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.

Where Kįm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—246,3841 in 1.4K274KKim251
DK Denmark—28,1921 in 20828K—1
SE Sweden—17,4191 in 58617K—30
NO Norway—8,6451 in 63221K—29
FI Finland—5,5401 in 1K6.5KKim25
GA Gabon#65———Kim19

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kįm is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Estonian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Estonia, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Also written Kim, Ķim

  • a separate given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia

    Also written Kim, Kîm, Kïm, Kịm, K̶̺̺̿̿i̶̺̺̿̿m̶̺̺̿̿

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kįm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kįm mean, and where does it come from?
Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
In which country does Kįm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 246 thousand people named Kįm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kim.
Where is Kįm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kįm 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 Kįm?
In the United States, the national register counted 246,384 people named Kįm in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
How common is Kįm compared with other names?
In Gabon, Kįm is the 65th most common given name of 2,821 given names recorded there.

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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, “Kįm” — the 65th most common given name in Gabon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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