Kym
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kym is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Korea, where it is the 5th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 23◐
- AUAustralia1 in 827
- USUnited States1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈273K ●
- #97 ●
- Sources
- 569 ●
- 1 in 1.3K ◐
across 10 countries
of 21M surnames
5.9M records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Kim in KR South Korea, US United States, AU Australia and 20 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #5 | 11,145,371 | 2.4K rec. | — | 11M | Kim | 12 |
| US United States | #132 | 262,352 | 4.7M rec. | 1 in 1.3K | 274K | Kim | 569 |
| AU Australia | #70 | 111,942 | 272K rec. | — | 40 | Kim | 284 |
| GB United Kingdom | #494 | 46,148 | 265K rec. | — | 5 | Kim | 272 |
| CA Canada | #90 | 43,215 | 153K rec. | — | 2 | Kim | 239 |
| MY Malaysia | #117 | 29,375 | 33K rec. | — | — | Kim | 112 |
| DE Germany | #349 | 22,299 | 75K rec. | — | — | Kim | 229 |
| JP Japan | — | 15,353 | 14K rec. | — | — | Kim | 144 |
| NL Netherlands | #129 | 12,856 | 33K rec. | — | 26K | Kim | 155 |
| PH Philippines | — | 9,112 | 51K rec. | — | — | Kim | 164 |
| EG Egypt | #504 | 5,917 | 13K rec. | — | — | Kim | 47 |
| IT Italy | #417 | 5,205 | 25K rec. | — | — | Kim | 104 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English81K83%
- 5K5%
- Spanish2.6K3%
- Khmer1.4K1%
- French1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 80,994 | 83% |
| 4,967 | 5% | |
| Spanish | 2,648 | 3% |
| Khmer | 1,357 | 1% |
| French | 1,142 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kym is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, initialism of Kırmızı, Yeşil, Mavi (RGB)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1945 | 8 |
| 1946 | 25 |
| 1947 | 30 |
| 1948 | 36 |
| 1949 | 30 |
| 1950 | 37 |
| 1951 | 53 |
| 1952 | 80 |
| 1953 | 80 |
| 1954 | 113 |
| 1955 | 100 |
| 1956 | 147 |
| 1957 | 163 |
| 1958 | 170 |
| 1959 | 179 |
| 1960 | 159 |
| 1961 | 125 |
| 1962 | 112 |
| 1963 | 95 |
| 1964 | 65 |
| 1965 | 72 |
| 1966 | 66 |
| 1967 | 59 |
| 1968 | 54 |
| 1969 | 60 |
| 1970 | 49 |
| 1971 | 54 |
| 1972 | 53 |
| 1973 | 53 |
| 1974 | 51 |
| 1975 | 46 |
| 1976 | 35 |
| 1977 | 36 |
| 1978 | 31 |
| 1979 | 39 |
| 1980 | 32 |
| 1981 | 45 |
| 1982 | 28 |
| 1983 | 26 |
| 1984 | 21 |
| 1985 | 18 |
| 1986 | 16 |
| 1987 | 20 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 11 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 4 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 3 |
| 1995 | 1 |
| 1996 | 2 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 1999 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2003 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 |
AU SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) — 68 years between 1944–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kym Gyngellb. 1952AUAustralian comedian and actor
- Kym Karathb. 1958USAmerican actress and model
- Kym Mazelleb. 1960USAmerican singer
- Kym Whitleyb. 1961USAmerican actress and comedian
- Kym Hamptonb. 1962USAmerican basketball player (born 1962)
- Kym Barrettb. 1965AUAustralian costume designer
- Kym Wilsonb. 1973AUAustralian actress
- Kym Marshb. 1976GBEnglish actress and former singer
- Kym Howeb. 1980AUAustralian pole vaulter
- Kym Jacksonb. 1983GBAustralian screenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 414 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kym?
- We estimate roughly 273 thousand people bear Kym (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kym have the most bearers?
- Kym is most frequently recorded in South Korea, where it is most often spelled kim.
- How common is Kym compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Kym is the 5th most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.
- Is Kym a male or female name?
- Kym is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kym” — the 5th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.