Kim shines in more than one language. In Vietnamese it means gold, a bright and precious element; in English it began as a short form of Kimberley and was made famous by Rudyard Kipling's 1901 novel Kim.
Crisp and modern, it has been worn as a name in its own right for generations. Its brevity is its strength — clean, confident and easy the world over.
Whether read as gold or as a classic nickname-turned-name, Kim is bright and unfussy.
Kim does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kim reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.