Kemp
Kemp is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195731 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1898
- 1,286people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,286 boys have been named Kemp in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 31 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 15%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kemp | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 96 | |
| 1920s | 104 | |
| 1930s | 96 | |
| 1940s | 109 | |
| 1950s | 180 | |
| 1960s | 192 | |
| 1970s | 103 | |
| 1980s | 72 | |
| 1990s | 89 | |
| 2000s | 82 | |
| 2010s | 109 | |
| 2020s | 49 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Kemp was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Kemp
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gregorpeak 1962
- Drexelpeak 1957
- Vincentpeak 1962
- Doranpeak 1954
- Vonpeak 1958
- Vaughanpeak 2006
- Donatopeak 1926
- Catarinopeak 1945
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.