Kismet
#16,184 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kismet has been given to 198 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #16,184 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Kismet, 2025
1 in 663,000
Kismet 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kismet?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,184
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kismet 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kismet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kismets were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kismet was born before 1975 — so the typical Kismet is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 33.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 192
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (65).
Is Kismet 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
- −1,768
- Places dropped
- 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
- 38.5%
- Peak was 1973 (13)
- Years since peak
- 52
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.9% average annual change
Spellings of Kismet
Kismet is not the most common spelling — Lisset is, with 40.2% against Kismet's 5.3%.
Kismet around the world
Where Kismet 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.
- England & Wales1996–2014#5,691in 2014
- France1991–1991#3,371in 1991
- Canada2023–2023#3,391in 2023
- South Australia1969–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kismet by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kismet
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kismet
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.