Kimmie

Where Kimmie comes from

The dictionaries list Kimmie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given names Kimberly and Kimberley — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1952
    First appearance
    #3,552 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1959
    Peak, #1,417
    57 babies named Kimmie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,599.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Kimberly and Kimberley.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Kimmie hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.