Kemp
About 1,306 American babies have been named Kemp since 1898, most of them around 1957. In 2025 it ranked 4,857th. About 850 Kemps are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Kemp
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,306
- Estimated living today
- 850
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 1,411th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,857th
- First recorded
- 1898
How old the living Kemps are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,306 babies given the name since 1898, about 850 are alive — 65 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Kemp is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kemp is most concentrated in North Carolina (34.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular boys’ names the year Kemp peaked:
Related names
Kemp against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.