Kemmy
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kemmy has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 1958. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Kemmy, 1964
1 in 648,000
Kemmy over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kemmy?
Kemmy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1964
- 1 in 648,000
- 6 of 3,887,460 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 332,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1964
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 449,098 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kemmy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 449,098 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kemmy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kemmys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kemmy was born before 1958 — so the typical Kemmy is around 67 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 12
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Kemmy rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1958 (6)
- Years since peak
- 67
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Kemmy
Kemmy is not the most common spelling — Jimmy is, with 38.6% against Kemmy's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Kemmy around the world
Where Kemmy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2005–2005#5,311in 2005
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Kemmy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kemmy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kemmy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.