Kimathi
#8,609 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kimathi has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #8,609 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Kimathi, 2025
1 in 368,000
Kimathi 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kimathi?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,609
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kimathi 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kimathi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kimathis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kimathi was born before 2005 — so the typical Kimathi is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 37.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 24
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (9).
Is Kimathi 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (9)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Kimathi
Kimathi is not the most common spelling — Kimani is, with 98.7% against Kimathi's 1.3%.
- Kimani98.7%1,758
- Kimathi1.3%24
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.
Kimathi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kimathi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kimathi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.