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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Kem

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

680

peak year 1956

More common than

86%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1956
65 births
Best rank
#930
in 1956
First recorded
1942
#3,396 that year
Last recorded
2005
no later published record
Average birth year
1961
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
40 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195665#930Peak
  2. 195751#1,069
  3. 195844#1,165
  4. 196137#1,310
  5. 195934#1,349

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #930 in 1956 · peak births 65 in 1956

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 66% boys■ 34% girls

680 boys · 353 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Kem has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.