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 | |
| 2002 | — | — | ||
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| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 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 |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 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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| 1880 | — | — | ||
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.
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 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 23,670 of them was named Kam, which outranked 84.8% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,532Shaunda63
- #1,532Thomasina63
- #1,532Trinette63
- #1,553Kam62
- #1,553Abbey62
- #1,553Amiee62
- #1,553Dyan62
- #1,563Anetra61
- #1,563Carley61
- #1,563Cinnamon61
Tied with 9 names at #1,553; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 120,949 of them was named Kam, which outranked 53.4% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,674Willam14
- #2,674Yuri14
- #2,674Zoran14
- #2,799Kam13
- #2,799Adriano13
- #2,799Aidan13
- #2,799Albaro13
- #2,946Aden12
- #2,946Adriel12
- #2,946Alcides12
Tied with 146 names at #2,799; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.