Given name & surname
Kym
“of the royal fortress”·“as precious as gold”
Kym is a variant of Kimberly. One English interpretation is “of the royal fortress.” Kym is a variant of Kim. One Vietnamese interpretation is “as precious as gold.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kym is a variant of Kimberly. One English interpretation is “of the royal fortress.” Kym is a variant of Kim. One Vietnamese interpretation is “as precious as gold.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Kym is a variant of Kimberly. An origin associated with Kimberly is English. Kym is a variant of Kim. An origin associated with Kim is Vietnamese.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Kym is a variant of Kim. The history of Kim gives this family its wider story. In Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, the boy’s name shortens Kimball. That literary use is distinct from English Kim as a short form of Kimberley and Scandinavian Kim as a short form of Joakim.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Kym through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,470
- 173 boys · 1,297 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 138 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 97 in 1959. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,694 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 62,619 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kym’s family of names
Kym has a related form in Kimberly. Kym has a related form in Kim.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kym
- Kym WhitleyAmerican actress and comedianborn 1961
- Kym MarshEnglish actress and former singerborn 1976
- Kym KarathAmerican actress and modelborn 1958
- Kym HoweAustralian pole vaulterborn 1980
- Kym CarterAmerican athletics competitorborn 1964
- Kym MazelleAmerican singerborn 1960
- Kym NgSingaporean actress and television presenterborn 1967
- Kym ValentineAustralian actressborn 1977
- Kym BarrettAustralian costume designerborn 1965
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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