Kam
Last seen for girls in 1982 at #10,517 · #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
Given to boys 71.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 57 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 968since 1914
Kam over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,450 | 33 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,001 | 41 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,737 | 47 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,675 | 49 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,552 | 51 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,925 | 40 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,394 | 56 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,507 | 51 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,345 | 55 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,305 | 57 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,486 | 50 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,885 | 40 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,753 | 27 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,659 | 20 | |
| 2010 | — | #7,087 | 11 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #9,871 | 7 | |
| 2007 | — | #9,788 | 7 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,427 | 10 | |
| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
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| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #2,728 | 28 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #2,321 | 35 | #2,450 | 17 |
| 1974 | #1,553 | 62 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #2,914 | 23 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #2,360 | 27 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 | #3,601 | 6 |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | #3,552 | 6 |
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| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kam! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1956, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kam is popular in 1914
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#63 · 1 in 212
Best ever in a state: #63 in Hawaii, 1914.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #63 | 5 | 1 in 212 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kam
- 449 spots since 2024 (#3,001 → #3,450)
- 525 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #3,450)
- 964 spots since 2015 (#2,486 → #3,450)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2016 at #2,305 (57 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,040 boys born in 2019 were named Kam (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,305 in 2016, was only 1 in 33,294 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.6% of all boys named Kam (393) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1983, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,264 (1914) | #3,264 |
| 1920s | 10 | #4,307 (1922) | #4,327 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 19 | #3,033 (1958) | #3,440 |
| 1960s | 57 | #2,308 (1969) | #3,458 |
| 1970s | 100 | #2,450 (1975) | #3,465 |
| 1980s | 37 | #4,940 (1980) | #6,009 |
| 1990s | 42 | #5,823 (1990) | #7,306 |
| 2000s | 44 | #7,427 (2006) | #9,376 |
| 2010s | 393 | #2,305 (2016) | #3,432 |
| 2020s | 261 | #2,552 (2021) | #2,890 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kam in 1914
Top boys' names in 1914
More about 1914
boys
654,762 boys got a published name in 1914; 1 in 130,952 of them was named Kam, which outranked 13.2% of the 3,759 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 495 names at #3,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.