Is Kim a male or female name?
Kim is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 84% and male usage in Norway at 93%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 81%
- Sample size
- 245,611
- Confidence
- high
Kim by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 84% | 214,713 | ssa |
| Norway NO | male | 93% | 9,000 | ssb |
| France FR | female | 81% | 6,610 | insee |
| Canada CA | female | 94% | 4,691 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | female | 78% | 4,631 | bfs |
| England and Wales GB | female | 95% | 2,374 | nrs |
| Ireland IE | female | 99% | 2,138 | cso |
| Austria AT | female | 92% | 573 | statat |
| Spain ES | female | 63% | 534 | ine |
| Poland PL | female | 53% | 347 | pesel |
Attested in 20 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AM · AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · DK · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · LU · NL · NO · NZ · PL · SE · US · VN
Kim over time
In the United States, 46.3% of the babies named Kim in the 1920s were girls, against 78.4% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 60% of the babies named Kim in the 1960s were girls, against 78% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 46% | 123 | — | |
| 1930s | 40% | 519 | — | |
| 1940s | 32% | 4,006 | — | |
| 1950s | 73% | 77,283 | — | |
| 1960s | 93% | 101,571 | 60% | 100 |
| 1970s | 92% | 22,517 | 55% | 155 |
| 1980s | 81% | 4,724 | 69% | 850 |
| 1990s | 80% | 2,007 | 85% | 1,720 |
| 2000s | 85% | 1,025 | 81% | 1,640 |
| 2010s | 86% | 679 | 87% | 1,800 |
| 2020s | 78% | 232 | 78% | 250 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Kim with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Kim&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Kim
Is Kim a male or female name?
Kim is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 84% and male usage in Norway at 93%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Kim change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Kim identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.