Kem
Recorded 1942–2005 · United States
Kem was most popular in 1956, when 85 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,866 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,033 people named Kem.
Kem over time
How old is the name Kem?
Kem first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1942, which makes it about 83 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 42 of the 84 years since. It was last recorded in 2005.
How many people are named Kem?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,033 American births named Kem between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 831 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Kem in 2025?
Kem was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Kem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Kem is a unisex name — 34.2% of the 1,033 Americans given it were girls and 65.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 1968 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Kem?
Roughly 831 Americans named Kem are alive today — 80% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 65 years old, and half are between 60 and 69. That is a narrow band: Kem arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org