Kemper
Kemper is a boy's name that peaked in 2009, when it was the 1,990th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 1,600 Kempers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Kemper
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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 301 girls and 1,598 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 21 to 14.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 22 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,899
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 1,990th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 301 / 1,598
How old the living Kempers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,899 babies given the name since 1912, about 1,600 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 970 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 Kemper is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kemper is most concentrated in Virginia (9.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular boys’ names the year Kemper peaked:
Related names
Kemper against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.