Kym

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kym: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kym: Recorded since 1990, it reached #247 in 2003, and it was last ranked in 2013.

3registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#247highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2013

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1296
1997	#1543
1998	#2701
1999	#2770
2000	#3247
2001	#1238
2002	#2868
2003	#1722
2004	#2112
2005	#3970
2006	#5061
2010	#5707
2013	#5742

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 19 of the 23 years from 1990 to 2012.

In 2010: #758 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #5707 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1990–2013 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1990
First recorded at #517 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1990 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1990–2012
Highest recorded position: #247 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 1990–2012).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2013
Most recently recorded at #5742 among girls in England and Wales, in 2013.
England and Wales · Girls

Kym appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1990, and has registered 106 births with the name.

Kym across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kym's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#517 (1990)	#247 (2003)	#907 (2012)	19 of 23	106 (1990–2012)	14 (2003)
England and Wales · Girls	#1296 (1996)	#1238 (2001)	#5742 (2013)	13 of 18	93 (1996–2013)	16 (2001)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#339 (2002)	#339 (2002)	#384 (2006)	2 of 5	6 (2002–2006)	3 (2002)
England and Wales · Boys	#1642 (1998)	#1642 (1998)	#2220 (2001)	3 of 4	16 (1998–2001)	7 (1998)

Kym by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kym in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	37	8 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	57	8 of 10	7
2010s	12	3 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Kym appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1990 to 2013. Highest recorded position: #247 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Kym's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2112	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1296	14	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#339	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	9	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#247	14	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#289	11	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	4	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#319	7	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#394	6	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	5	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#448	4	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1990 and 2013, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #247, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 12 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Kylo · #252, 15y
Kymani · #926, 26y
Kymarni · #1962, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kailey · #248, 25y
Leja · #251, 17y
Chantel · #252, 25y
Eryk · #252, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Kasey · #247, 31y
Maisey · #247, 29y
Maizie · #247, 29y
Rahul · #247, 29y

Kym was ranked #247 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kym and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kym without appearing here.

Kym moved ahead of

Lorraine Compare
In 2008 they stood at #862 and #597 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #641 and #893.
Tracey Compare
In 2008 they stood at #862 and #665 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #641 and #893.
Kristine Compare
In 2006 they stood at #502 and #411 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #624 and #842.
Debra Compare
In 1996 they stood at #502 and #411 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1997 that had become #394 and #576.

Moved ahead of Kym

Janice Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2112 and #2530 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3970 and #1589.
Rian Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2112 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #5707 and #3533.
Riley Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1238 and #1439 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2868 and #822.
Jayden Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1238 and #1305 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2868 and #920.

Moved the opposite way to Kym

Abigail Compare
Between 1990 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kym went from #517 to #907 while Abigail went from #380 to #50.
Aimee Compare
Between 1990 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kym went from #517 to #907 while Aimee went from #143 to #75.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1990 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kym went from #517 to #907 while Alexandra went from #203 to #105.
Anna Compare
Between 1990 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kym went from #517 to #907 while Anna went from #66 to #22.

Moved the same way as Kym

Alma Compare
Between 1990 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kym went from #517 to #907 and Alma from #357 to #677.
Aoife Compare
Between 1990 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kym went from #517 to #907 and Aoife from #7 to #11.
Audrey Compare
Between 1990 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kym went from #517 to #907 and Audrey from #168 to #768.
Diane Compare
Between 1990 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kym went from #517 to #907 and Diane from #184 to #768.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1990 to 2013. Highest recorded position: #247 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Kym

Kym at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kym across 4 official records

Kym by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

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Kym across 4 official records

Kym by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

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