Ķīm
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ķīm is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea1 in 5as 김
- FIFinland1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ķīm itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- #60 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
10,689,967 named 김, 2015
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled 김 in KR South Korea, MO Macao, Kim in US United States and Gim in KP North Korea.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ķīm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #1 | 10,689,967as 김 | 1 in 5 | 11M | 김 | 369 |
| US United States | — | 262,352 | 1 in 1.3K | 274K | Kim | 477 |
| KP North Korea | #322 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Gim | 92 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,012 | 1 in 9.5K | 2.4K | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,187 | 1 in 14K | 3.2K | — | 3 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 263 | — | 김 | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,159 | 1 in 4.8K | 6.5K | — | 12 |
10,689,967 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ķīm mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Ķīm a male or female name?
- Ķīm is a male 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.
- In which country does Ķīm have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 11 million people named 김, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ķīm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ķīm is densest in the United States — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ķīm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 262,352 people named Ķīm in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ķīm compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Ķīm is the most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%B7%C4%ABmThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ķīm” — the most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.