Kemper
#6,284 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kemper has been given to 1,899 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #6,284 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 70 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.
Babies named Kemper, 2025
1 in 237,000
Kemper 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kemper over time
In 2025, Kemper went to 60% girls and 40% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kemper?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,284
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kemper sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kemper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kempers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kemper was born before 2006 — so the typical Kemper is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 28.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,339
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (452).
Is Kemper 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
- −2,022
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,313
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,886
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.26×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.0%
- Peak was 2009 (70)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kemper
Kemper is not the most common spelling — Kooper is, with 25.0% against Kemper's 10.0%.
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.
Where Kemper is used
Across 1910–2025, Kemper was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 462,430 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Idaho1 in 100,000
- 2Kansas1 in 100,000
- 3Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 4Virginia1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Iowa1 in —
- 7Missouri1 in —
- 8Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kemper has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kemper around the world
Where Kemper 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.
- Canada2005–2012#2,182in 2012
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kemper by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kemper
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kemper
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.