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Kymir vs Kymora

American parents have registered 946 Kymirs since 1880, against 871 Kymoras. Kymir is still ahead, with 133 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kymir against Kymora, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kymir Kymora

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 27 years in which either name was published, Kymora for 18 years and Kymir for 9 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kymir Kymora
Total US births 946871
Most in one year 14778
Babies in 2025 13324
Estimated living today 940860
Median age today 315
Peak year 20232008
Best rank 1,300th boys2,441st girls
Rank in 2025 1,382nd5,238th
First recorded 20001999
Girls / boys 0 / 946871 / 0

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 Kymoras alive today are over 15; half the Kymirs are over 3. That is 12 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: Kymir and Kymora.