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Kymani vs Kymir

American parents have registered 5,428 Kymanis since 1880, against 946 Kymirs. But in 2025 it was Kymir that was commoner, 133 babies to 127.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kymani against Kymir, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kymani Kymir

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 31 years in which either name was published, Kymani for 30 years and Kymir for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kymani Kymir
Total US births 5,428946
Most in one year 387147
Babies in 2025 127133
Estimated living today 5,400940
Median age today 133
Peak year 20122023
Best rank 727th boys1,300th boys
Rank in 2025 1,793rd1,382nd
First recorded 19952000
Girls / boys 1,099 / 4,3290 / 946

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kymanis alive today are over 13; half the Kymirs are over 3. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kymani and Kymir.