Kemper
Kemper is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200970 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 1,864people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,584 boys have been named Kemper in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 70 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2010s alone account for 29%.
Kemper is used for both sexes: 15% of its bearers are girls (280), most of them born around 2023.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kemper | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 63 | |
| 1920s | 76 | |
| 1930s | 42 | |
| 1940s | 78 | |
| 1950s | 74 | |
| 1960s | 81 | |
| 1970s | 56 | |
| 1980s | 51 | |
| 1990s | 99 | |
| 2000s | 380 | |
| 2010s | 452 | |
| 2020s | 132 |
In 2009, its biggest year
Kemper was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Kemper
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tennysonpeak 2014
- Adrienpeak 2009
- Lathanpeak 2011
- Aldopeak 2007
- Natepeak 2007
- Carmellopeak 2011
- Dominicpeak 2013
- Kellerpeak 2012
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.